The past could always be annihilated. Regret, denial, or forgetfulness could do that. But the future was inevitable.

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.

All great ideas are dangerous.

The artist is the creator of beautiful things. To reveal art and conceal the artist is art's aim. The critic is he who can translate into another manner or a new material his impression of beautiful things.

One should always be in love. That is the reason one should never marry.

Public Opinion... an attempt to organize the ignorance of the community, and to elevate it to the dignity of physical force.

I never approve, or disapprove, of anything now. It is an absurd attitude to take towards life.