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.

It's an odd thing, but anyone who disappears is said to be seen in San Francisco. It must be a delightful city and possess all the attractions of the next world

Let me be surrounded by luxury, I can do without the necessities!

Artists, like the Greek gods, are only revealed to one another.

An artist should create beautiful things, but should put nothing of his own life into them.

Women are never disarmed by compliments. Men always are. That is the difference between the sexes.

Religion is the fashionable substitute for belief.