A man's feet should be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world.
It takes a wonderful brain and exquisite senses to produce a few stupid ideas.
Theory helps us to bear our ignorance of facts.
Man is not made to understand life, but to live it.
A musical education is necessary for musical judgement. What most people relish is hardly music; it is rather a drowsy reverie relieved by nervous thrills.
Art is the response to the demand for entertainment, for the stimulation of our senses and imagination, and truth enters into it only as it subserves these ends.