Human dignity begins to assert itself only at the point where man is distinguishable from the beast by pity for it.

You know my faithfulness to you, never can another own my heart, never - never - never...

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

True drama can be conceived only as resulting from the collective impulse of all the arts to communicate in the most immediate way with a collective public... Thus especially the art of tone, developed with such singular diversity in instrumental music, will realize in the collective artwork its richest potential -- will indeed incite the pantomimic art of dancing in turn to wholly new discoveries and inspire the breath of poetry no less to an undreamed-of fullness. For in its isolation music has formed itself an organ capable of the most immeasurable expression - the orchestra.

The purpose of art: to make the unconscious conscious.

It is impossible to communicate with Schumann. The man is hopeless; he doesn't talk at all.

Wherever the fish are, that's where we go.