I live neither in the past nor in the future. I am in the present. I cannot know what tomorrow will bring forth. I can know only what the truth is for me today. That is what I am called upon to serve, and I serve it in all lucidity.

In order to create there must be a dynamic force, and what force is more potent than love?

Is it not by love alone that we succeed in penetrating to the very essence of being?

I haven't understood a bar of music in my life, but I have felt it.

I never am sea sick, never. I am sea drunk!

Vivaldi didn't write 400 concertos; he wrote one concerto 400 times.

An artist is like a pig snouting truffles.