There is no theory. You have only to listen. Pleasure is the law. I love music passionately. And because l love it, I try to free it from barren traditions that stifle it. It is a free art gushing forth, an open-air art boundless as the elements, the wind, the sky, the sea. It must never be shut in and become an academic art.

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

There is no theory. You have only to listen. Pleasure is the law. I love music passionately. And because l love it, I try to free it from barren traditions that stifle it. It is a free art gushing forth, an open-air art boundless as the elements, the wind, the sky, the sea. It must never be shut in and become an academic art.

I wish to sing of my interior visions with the naive candour of a child.

If I am not making music, I have no reason for existing.

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

Anyone who calls my music "impressionist" is an imbecile.