When you write the story of two happy lovers, let the story be set on the banks of Lake Como.
Broad paths are open to every endeavour, and a sympathetic recognition is assured to every one who consecrates his art to the divine services of a conviction of a consciousness.
I foster a sorrowful conception of affection. Make no sacrifices.
In life one must decide whether to conjugate the verb to have or the verb to be.
Sorrowful and great is the artist's destiny.
Music is never stationary; successive forms and styles are only like so many resting-places - like tents pitched and taken down again on the road to the Ideal.