One siupreme fact which I have discovered is that it is not willpower, but fantasy and imagination that ceates. Imagination is the creative force. Imagination creates reality.

The whole duty of a conductor is comprised in his ability to indicate the right tempo.

I have long been convinced that my artistic ideal stands or falls with Germany. Only the Germany that we love and desire can help us achieve that ideal.

The language of tones belongs equally to all mankind, and melody is the absolute language in which the musician speaks to every heart.

We must learn to die, and to die in the fullest sense of the word. The fear of the end is the source of all lovelessness

I know absolutely nothing about music.

I believe in God, Mozart and Beethoven, and likewise their disciples and apostles; - I believe in the Holy Spirit and the truth of the one, indivisible Art; - I believe that this Art proceeds from God, and lives within the hearts of all illumined men.