Being natural is simply a pose, and the most irritating pose I know.

Arguments are extremely vulgar, for everybody in good society holds exactly the same opinions.

God and other artists are always a little obscure.

People fashion their God after their own understanding. They make their God first and worship him afterwards.

The good we get from art is not what we learn from it; it is what we become through it.

The aim of life is self-development. To realize one's nature perfectly - that is what each of us is here for.

Music is the art... which most completely realizes the artistic idea and is the condition to which all the other arts are constantly aspiring.