To play without passion is inexcusable!
Mistakes - mistakes - you yourself are a unique mistake!
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.
Music is mediator between spiritual and sensual life.
Art always demands of us something new.
Artists who have won fame are often embarrassed by it; thus their first works are often their best.