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.

Music is in the space between the notes.

Works of art make rules but rules do not make works of art.

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

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.

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

There is nothing more musical than a sunset.