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

For the man of talent affects to call his transgressions of the laws of sense trivial and to count them nothing considerd with his devotion to his art.

If a poet knows more about a horse than he does about heaven, he might better stick to the horse, and some day the horse may carry him into heaven.

Please don't try to make things nice! All the wrong notes are right. Just copy as I have -- I want it that way.

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

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

It is conceivable that what is unified form to the author or composer may of necessity be formless to his audience.