I hate performers who debase great works of art; I long for their annihilation.

Must then a Christ perish in torment in every age to save those that have no imagination.

Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else.

Life is a first draft... with NO rewrite.

You have no right to say that I am not sincere. I have found a happiness in art that real life has never given me. I am intensely in earnest about art. There is is a magic and mystery in art that you know nothing of.

The pianoforte is the most important of all musical instruments; its invention was to music what the invention of printing was to poetry.

It is easy - terribly easy - to shake a man's faith in himself. To take advantage of that to break a man's spirit is devil's work.