One might say that where Religion becomes artificial, it is reserved for Art to save the spirit of religion.

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.

Whatever I thought right, to others seemed wrong; what I held to be bad, others approved of.

I write music with an exclamation point!

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

Joy is not in things; it is in us.

Whatever my passions demand of me, I become for the time being - musician, poet, director, author, lecturer or anything else.