This suspense is terrible. I hope it will last.

I didn't have a life until I went up onstage.

Music is the perfect type of art.

I played with an idea, and grew willful; tossed it into the air; transformed it; let it escape and recaptured it; made it iridescent with fancy, and winged it with paradox.

I have always been of opinion that a man who desires to get married should know either everything or nothing.

I now see that sorrow, being the supreme emotion of which man is capable, is at once the type and test of all great art.

The artist is the creator of beautiful things. To reveal art and conceal the artist is art's aim.