The century of aeroplanes deserves its own music. As there are no precedents, I must create anew.

Beauty seems to strike some people as a personal affront.

There is nothing more musical than a sunset. He who feels what he sees will find no more beautiful example of development in all that book which, alas, musicians read but too little - the book of Nature.

The century of aeroplanes deserves its own music. As there are no precedents, I must create anew.

There is nothing more musical than a sunset.

Listen to no one's advice except that of the wind in the trees. That can recount the whole history of mankind.

The colour of my soul is iron-grey and sad bats wheel about the steeple of my dreams.