There have been a few moments when I have known complete satisfaction, but only a few. I have rarely been free from the disturbing realization that my playing might have been better.

Art is great only when it bears the stamp of the individual.

Art must be a slow and normal evolution.

I am nothing! If you could know the dream of what I would like to be, you would realize how little I have accomplished.

Musical expression is never primarily national, but is personal and individual rather. It is so deep, so profound, that it goes beyond and below nationality and gives voice to the most private feeling. In music there is never exact heredity. Each man is an individual.

A man is not necessarily a master because he happened to compose two or three centuries ago. Let us beware of the worship of mere antiquity.

Art is the expression of the immortal part of man.