It is easier to analyze a work in its form, in its evolution, than simply to love it with all the living forces of our heart. It is easier to define its peculiarities and its details than to draw out of it its emotion, its thought.

Without discipline, there can be no freedom.

Life is denied by lack of attention, whether it be to cleaning windows or trying to write a masterpiece.

False notes can be forgiven, false music cannot.

Without a strong cup to carry the emotion, it is only a curiosity. Great art can come to us only in strong cups. Without emotion, there is nothing to carry.

You should never listen to someone practice. That is their work and theirs alone.

Great art likes chains. The greatest artists have created art within bounds. Or else they have created their own chains.