Art is sort of an experimental station in which one tries out living.
In the dark, all cats are black.
If someone says can't, that shows you what to do.
No one can have an idea once he starts really listening.
I certainly had no feeling for harmony, and Schoenberg thought that that would make it impossible for me to write music. He said, 'You'll come to a wall you won't be able to get through.' So I said, 'I'll beat my head against that wall.'
I am trying to be unfamiliar with what I'm doing.