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.

How much has to be explored and discarded before reaching the naked flesh of feeling.

The century of aeroplanes deserves its own music. As there are no precedents, I must create anew.

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

The century of airplanes has a right to its own music.

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

There is no theory. You merely have to listen. Pleasure is the law.