The spirit can assert itself only through the medium of clear form.
Tradition is laziness.
I live like a Hottentot. I cannot exchange one sensible word with anyone.
You must renounce all superficiality, all convention, all vanity and delusion.
The longer you live and the more you learn, the more clearly you will feel the difference between the few men who are truly great and the mere virtuosi.
I also had a brother who was like me a musician and a composer. A man of great talent, far more gifted than I. He died very young... he killed himself in the prime of his life.