There can be nothing exclusive about substantial art. It comes directly out of the heart of the experience of life and thinking about life and living life.

All melodious poets shall be hoarse as street ballads, when once the penetrating keynote of nature and spirit is sounded-the earth-beat, sea-beat, heart-beat, which make the tune to which the sun rolls, and the globule of blood and the sap of the trees.

If a composer has a nice wife and some nice children, how can he let the children starve on his dissonances?

Everyone should have the opportunity of not being over-influenced.

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

Expression, to a great extent, is a matter of terms, and terms are anyone's. The meaning of 'God' may have a billion interpretations if there be that many souls in the world

Every great inspiration is but an experiment - though every experiment we know, is not a great inspiration.