Extreme complication is contrary to art.

Peter Townsend Music is the silence between the notes.. So could it be said that dance is the stillness between the steps?

Beauty must appeal to the senses, must provide us with immediate enjoyment, must impress us or insinuate itself into us without any effort on our part.

The age of automobiles and aeroplanes cannot express itself in the same manner as did the age of the diligence.

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.

[on Richard Wagner] A beautiful sunset that was mistaken for a dawn.

Some people wish above all to conform to the rules, I wish only to render what I can hear.