Never do what a specialist can do better. Discover your own specialty. Do not despair if your specialty appears to be more delicate, a lesser thing. Make up in finesse what you lose in force.

Art produces ugly things which frequently become more beautiful with time. Fashion, on the other hand, produces beautiful things which always become ugly with time.

Perhaps I know to what extent I can go too far.

The poet never asks for admiration; he wants to be believed.

He who is affected by an insult is infected by it.

He has the manner of a giant with the look of a child, a lazy activeness, a mad wisdom, a solitude encompassing the world.

Look out! Be on your guard, because alone of all the arts, music moves all around you.