Through care taken over trends, the desire to be novel and affectation knowledge, we repudiate our art, our instinct, our own way of doing things; it is absurd and stupid

It may be a good thing to copy reality; but to invent reality is much, much better.

You may have the universe if I may have Italy.

I deny that either singers or conductors can "create" or work creatively - this, as I have always said, is a conception that leads to the abyss.

Oh, you happy sons of the North who have been reared at the bosom of Bach, how I envy you!

The artist must yield himself to his own inspiraton, and if he has a true talent, no one knows and feels better than he what suits him.

Through care taken over trends, the desire to be novel and affectation knowledge, we repudiate our art, our instinct, our own way of doing things; it is absurd and stupid