Every great inspiration is but an experiment.

Most of the forward movements of life in general ... have been the work of essentially religiously-minded people.

One thing I am certain of is that, if I have done anything good in music, it was, first, because of my father, and second, because of my wife

An apparent confusion, if lived with long enough, may become orderly . . . A rare experience of a moment at daybreak, when something in nature seems to reveal all consciousness, cannot be explained at noon. Yet it is part of the day's unity

The word 'beauty' is as easy to use as the word 'degenerate.' Both come in handy when one does or does not agree with you

You cannot set art off in a corner and hope for it to have vitality, reality, and substance.

Vagueness is at times an indication of nearness to a perfect truth.