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.

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

The trouble with the opera is there's always to much singing.

Inspiration and ideas only come to me when I have not had a woman in a very long time... Ballads, polonaises, even a whole concerto may have been lost forever up your des durka, I can't tell you how many. I have been so deeply engulfed in my love for you I have hardly created anything.

Art is the most beautiful deception of all!

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.