There is nothing harder to come by than detachment and solitude; and nothing more important.

In the race for money some men may come first, but man comes last.

A musical audience is at best uninspiring, at worst definitely drab. ... Respectability hangs like a pall over the orchestra and the boxes; a sort of sterile sobriety ill-fitted to the passionate geometry of music.

Artists never make wars. They are too busy making life out of the matter of their visions.

The world of sight is still limitless. It is the artist who limits vision to the cramped dimensions of his own ego.

performance is an act of faith.

Slowly the wasters and despoilers are impoverishing our land, our nature, and our beauty, so that there will not be one beach, one hill, one lane, one meadow, one forest free from the debris of man and the stigma of his improvidence.