The mere fact of knowing that a great audience waits on your labor is enough to shake all your nerves to pieces.

Piano playing is more difficult than statesmanship. It is harder to awake emotions in ivory keys than it is in human beings.

Fatherland before everything, art afterward.

The Pole listening to Chopin listens to the voice of his whole race.

When one is an artist, what else can he be?

The genius is the man who has genuine and deep human relations with others, who does not cut himself off in the search for originality, but who realizes the value of artistic tradition.

If I do not practice one day; I know it. If I do not practice the next, the orchestra knows it; if I do not practice the third day, the whole world knows it.