When a love comes to an end, weaklings cry, efficient ones instantly find another love, and the wise already have one in reserve.

Art, like Nature, has her monsters, things of bestial shape and with hideous voices.

The best art is about individualism, free self-expression and realising a unique, imaginative perspective- A true artist takes no notice whatever of the public. The public are to him non-existent.

I don't like Switzerland; it has produced nothing but theologians and waiters.

Every impulse we strangle will only poison us.

After playing Chopin, I feel as if I had been weeping over sins that I had never committed, and mourning over tragedies that were not my own. Music always seems to me to produce that effect. It creates for one a past of which one has been ignorant, and fills one with a sense of sorrows that have been hidden from one’s tears.

You and I will always be friends." "Yet you poisoned me with a book once. I should not forgive that.