Artistic temperament is the disease that afflicts amateurs.
There is, therefore, about all complete conviction a kind of huge helplessness.
The men who really believe in themselves are all in lunatic asylums.
Criticism is only words about words, and of what use are words about such words as these?
Life exists for the love of music or beautiful things.
The one created thing which we cannot look at is the one thing in the light of which we look at everything.