Extreme complication is contrary to art.

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.

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

People come to music to seek oblivion: is that not also a form of deception?

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

Music is the space between the notes.