Don't only practise your art, but force your way into its secrets.

Music is the wine which inspires one to new generative processes, and I am Bacchus who presses out this glorious wine for mankind and makes them spiritually drunken.

I will seize fate by the throat; it shall certainly never wholly overcome me.

I know no other sign of superiority than Goodness.

There ought to be only one large art warehouse in the world, to which the artist could carry his art-works and from which he could carry away whatever he needed. As it is one must be half a tradesman.

We mortals with immortal minds are only born for sufferings and joys, and one could almost say that the most excellent receive joy through sufferings.

Only art and science can raise men to the level of God.