The luck of having talent is not enough; one must also have a talent for luck.
It is so rare...to find a complete person, with a soul, a heart and an imagination; so rare for characters as ardent and restless as ours to meet and to be matched together, that I hardly know how to tell you what happiness it gives me to know you.
If men of genius only knew what love their works inspire!
Bach is Bach just as God is God.
Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils.
It is not enough that the artist should be well prepared for the public. The public must be well prepared for what it is going to hear.