No composer has yet caught this rhythm of America - it is too mighty for the ears of most.

So long as little children are allowed to suffer, there is no true love in this world.

I had learned to have a perfect nausea for the theatre: the continual repetition of the same words and the same gestures, night after night, and the caprices, the way of looking at life, and the entire rigmarole disgusted me.

One might say that the American trend of education is to reduce the senses almost to nil.

The artist is the only lover; he alone has the pure vision of beauty, and love is the vision of the soul when it is permitted to gaze upon immortal beauty.

To awaken human emotion is the highest level of art.

Man must speak, then sing, then dance. The speaking is the brain, the thinking man. The singing is the emotion. The dancing is the Dionysian ecstasy which carries away all.