Art's purpose is to sober and quiet the mind so that it is in accord with what happens.

Now that things are so simple, there's so much to do.

When we separate music from life we get is art.

All I know about method is that when I am not working I sometimes think I know something, but when I am working, it is quite clear I know nothing.

When you start working, everybody is in your studio- the past, your friends, enemies, the art world, and above all, your own ideas- all are there. But as you continue painting, they start leaving, one by one, and you are left completely alone. Then, if you are lucky, even you leave.

When I went to the analyst for a kind of preliminary meeting, he said, 'I'll be able to fix you so that you'll write much more music than you do now.' I said, 'Good heavens! I already write too much, it seems to me.' That promise of his put me off.

Where does beauty begin? Where does it end? Where it ends is where the artist begins.