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.

I have a horror of sentimentality, and I cannot forget that its name is Saint-Saëns.

Life is the space between our things.

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

Music is the space between the notes.

Music is the expression of the movement of the waters, the play of curves described by changing breezes.

He was the incomparable painter of mystery, silence, and the infinite, of the passing cloud, and the sunlit shimmer of the waves-subleties which none before him had been capable of suggesting.