All you have to do is close your eyes and wait for the symbols.

What gives the artist real prestige is his imitators.

I take no pride in my artistic talents; they are God-given and I see absolutely no reason to become puffed up over something that one has received.

The more constraints one imposes, the more one frees one

The trick is to compose what one wants to compose and to get it commissioned afterward.

Just as appetite comes by eating, so work brings inspiration, if inspiration is not discernible at the beginning.

My God, so much I like to drink Scotch that sometimes I think my name is Igor Stra-whiskey.