It is sometimes essential for a husband and a wife to quarrel - they get to know each other better.

It is with art as with love: How can a man of the world,with all his distractions, keep the inwardness which an artist must possess if he hopes to attain perfection? That inwardness which the spectator must share if he is to understand the work as the artist wishes and hopes... Believe me, talents are like virtues; either you must love them for their own sake or renounce them altogether. And they are only recognized and rewarded when we have practised them in secret, like a dangerous mystery."

There is no permanence in doubt; it incites the mind to closer inquiry and experiment, from which, if rightly managed, certainty proceeds, and in this alone can man find thorough satisfaction.

The flowers are full of honey, but only the bee finds out the sweetness.

The effects of good music are not just because it's new; on the contrary music strikes us more the more familiar we are with it.

Rest not Life is sweeping by go and dare before you die. Something mighty and sublime, leave behind to conquer time.

We are never deceived; we deceive ourselves.