Beauty seems to strike some people as a personal affront.

The age of automobiles and aeroplanes cannot express itself in the same manner as did the age of the diligence.

I am more and more convinced that music is not, in essence, a thing which can be cast into a traditional and fixed form. It is made up of colors and rhythms.

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.

Anyone who calls my music "impressionist" is an imbecile.

There is nothing more musical than a sunset.

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