Music makes me forget myself, my true condition, it carries me off into another state of being, one that isn't my own.

The question of how things will settle down is the only important question.

Just as a painter needs light in order to put the finishing touches to his picture, so I need an inner light, which I feel I never have enough of in the autumn.

Man cannot possess anything as long as he fears death. But to him who does not fear it, everything belongs. If there was no suffering, man would not know his limits, would not know himself.

The appreciation of the merits of art (of the emotions it conveys) depends upon an understanding of the meaning of life...

One can often hear from the young people:" I do not want to live according to others` mind. I can think of it myself. " Why should one think of something, when it is already thought about. Take it and go farther, this is the strength of the mankind.

Great works of art are only great because they are accessible and comprehensible to everyone.