Only good questions deserve good answers.

Technique is really personality. That is the reason why the artist cannot teach it, why the pupil cannot learn it, and why the aesthetic critic can understand it. To the great poet, there is only one method of music - his own. To the great painter, there is only one manner of painting - that which he himself employs. The aesthetic critic, and the aesthetic critic alone, can appreciate all forms and all modes. It is to him that Art makes her appeal.

A work of art is the unique result of a unique temperament.

She behaves as if she was beautiful. Most American women do. It is the secret of their charm.

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.

Each time that one loves is the only time one has ever loved.

Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.