Everyone is born with genius, but most people only keep it a few minutes.

Music is the most abstract of the arts and also the most physical....music is under two signs, the stars and the wine

No matter how consummate a work of art may seem, it is only an approximation of the original conception. It is the artist's consciousness of this discrepancy between his conception and the realization that assures his progress.

There are two infinities: God and stupidity.

Our musical alphabet is poor and illogical. Music, which should pulsate with life, needs new means of expression, and science alone can infuse it with youthful vigor. Why, Italian Futurists, have you slavishly reproduced only what is commonplace and boring in the bustle of our daily lives. I dream of instruments obedient to my thought and which with their contribution of a whole new world of unsuspected sounds, will lend themselves to the exigencies of my inner rhythm.

Music, which should pulsate with life, needs new means of expression, and science alone can infuse it with youthful vigor.

I rather like a certain clumsiness in a work of art.