My mind and fingers have worked like the damned. Homer, the Bible, Plato, Locke, Lamartine, Chateaubriand, Beethoven, Bach, Hummel, Mozart, Weber are all around me. I study them. I devour them with fury.

My mind and fingers have worked like the damned. Homer, the Bible, Plato, Locke, Lamartine, Chateaubriand, Beethoven, Bach, Hummel, Mozart, Weber are all around me. I study them. I devour them with fury.

I find little in the works of Beethoven, Berlioz, Wagner and others when they are led by a conductor who functions like a windmill.

Truth is a great flirt.

Brahms' Variations are better than mine, but mine were written before his.

Life is only a long and bitter suicide, and faith alone can transform this suicide into a sacrifice.

A theatre receives recognition through its initiative, which is indispensable for first-rate performances.