There is no greater pleasure for me than to practice and exhibit my art.

I can live only wholly with you or not at all.

From the glow of enthusiasm I let the melody escape. I pursue it. Breathless I catch up with it. It flies again, it disappears, it plunges into a chaos of diverse emotions. I catch it again, I seize it, I embrace it with delight... I multiply it by modulations, and at last I triumph in the first theme. There is the whole symphony.

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

The amount of money one needs is terrifying.

This is the mark of a really admirable man: steadfastness in the face of trouble.

It is my belief one should not belittle the artist; while, however glorious his fame may seem, his time on Mount Olympus as an honourable guest of Zeus is short. It's a pity, but all too eager will the common folk drag him from this etherial heights to the low and trodden earth.