True singing is a different breath, about nothing.

There are quantities of human beings, but there are many more faces, for each person has several.

To be an artist means not to compute or count.

The necessary thing is after all but this; solitude, great inner solitude. Going into oneself for hours meeting no one - this one must be able to attain.

Nothing touches a work of art so little as words of criticism: they always result in more or less fortunate misunderstandings.

Being an artist means, not reckoning and counting, but ripening like the tree which does not force its sap and stands confidence in the storms of spring without fear that after them may come no summer

It is so often on the name of a misdeed that a life goes to pieces, not the nameless and personal action itself, which was perhaps a perfectly definite necessity of that life and would have been absorbed by it without effort.