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

The barriers are not erected which can say to aspiring talents and industry, 'Thus far and no farther.'

I carry my thoughts about me for a long time, often a very long time, before I write them down; meanwhile my memory is so faithful that I am sure never to forget, not even in years, a theme that has once occurred to me.

Beethoven can write music, thank God, but he can do nothing else on earth.

Everything should be at once surprising and inevitable.

Anyone who tells a lie has not a pure heart, and cannot make a good soup.

Artists are fiery; they do not weep.