You can feel an emotion; just don't think that it's so important.

College: two hundred people reading the same book. An obvious mistake. Two hundred people can read two hundred books.

Discord occasions a momentary distress to the ear, which remains unsatisfied, and even uneasy, until it hears something better. I am convinced...that provided the ear be at length made amends, there are few dissonances too strong for it. Disharmony, to paraphrase Bergson's statement about disorder, is simply a harmony to which many are unaccustomed.

One day when I was studying with Schoenberg, he pointed out the eraser on his pencil and said, 'This end is more important than the other.' After twenty years I learned to write directly in ink.

We need not destroy the past. It is gone.

Look at everything. Don't close your eyes to the world around you. Look and become curious and interested in what there is to see.

Art is whatever you can get away with.