There is no theory. You merely have to listen. Pleasure is the law.

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

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.

Works of art make rules but rules do not make works of art.

People don't very much like things that are beautiful - they are so far from their nasty little minds.

Music is the space between the notes.

Art is the most beautiful deception of all!