Music is the arithmetic of sounds as optics is the geometry of light.

Music begins where words are powerless to express. Music is made for the inexpressible. I want music to seem to rise from the shadows and indeed sometimes to return to them.

There is nothing more musical than a sunset.

Art is the most beautiful deception of all! And although people try to incorporate the everyday events of life in it, we must hope that it will remain a deception lest it become a utilitarian thing, sad as a factory.

Music is the expression of the movement of the waters, the play of curves described by changing breezes.

Art is the most beautiful deception of all!

I have a horror of sentimentality, and I cannot forget that its name is Saint-Saëns.