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.

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

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

But music, don't you know, is a dream from which the veils have been lifted. It's not even the expression of a feeling, it's the feeling itself.

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

In opera, there is always too much singing.

Art is the most beautiful deception of all!