I like Wagner's music better than anybody's. It is so loud that one can talk the whole time without other people hearing what one says.
I must say... that I ruined myself: and that nobody, great or small, can be ruined except by his own hand.
Art should never be popular.
If they know nothing of victory, they are at least spared the knowledge of defeat.
Cultivated leisure is the aim of man.
It's not hard to get the ideas when they come. They just come... it's painful waiting for them.