Only art and science can raise men to the level of God.
I can live only wholly with you or not at all.
Richard Wagner commenting on the music of Ludvig Van Beethoven: He was a Titan, wrestling with the Gods.
Art always demands of us something new.
To me the highest thing, after God, is my honor.
Music is the one incorporeal entrance into the higher world of knowledge which comprehends mankind but which mankind cannot comprehend.