Men are not only together when they are with each other; even the distant and the dead live with us.

Mistakes - mistakes - you yourself are a unique mistake!

I liked your opera. I think I will set it to music.

An artist is someone who has learned to trust in himself.

The world is a king, and like a king, desires flattery in return for favor; but true art is selfish and perverse — it will not submit to the mold of flattery.

You ask me where I get my ideas. That I cannot tell you with certainty. They come unsummoned, directly, indirectly - I could seize them with my hands - out in the open air, in the woods, while walking, in the silence of the nights, at dawn, excited by moods which are translated by the poet into words, by me into tones that sound and roar and storm about me till I have set them down in notes.

The Music is the only corporeal introduction to the superior world of Knowledge.