Each something is a celebration of the nothing that supports it.

I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones.

My favourite music is the music I haven't yet heard. I don't hear the music I write: I write in order to hear the music I haven't yet heard.

The emotions - love, mirth, the heroic, wonder, tranquility, fear, anger, sorrow, disgust - are in the audience.

Be happy whenever you can manage it. Enjoy yourself. It's lighter than you think.

People who aren't artists often feel that artists are inspired. But if you work at your art you don't have time to be inspired.

Value judgments are destructive to our proper business, which is curiosity and awareness.