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.

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

Music is the space between the notes.

I wish to sing of my interior visions with the naive candour of a child.

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.

Art is the most beautiful deception of all!