Nothing right can be accomplished in art without enthusiasm.

Does it not seem as if Mozart's works become fresher and fresher the oftener we hear them?

When you play, do not trouble yourself as to who is listening. Yet always play as though a master listened to you.

Talent works, genius creates.

Mendelssohn I consider the first musician of the day; I doff my hat to him as my superior. He plays with everything, especially with the grouping of the instruments in the orchestra, but with such ease, delicacy and art, with such mastery throughout.

Without enthusiasm nothing great can be effected in art.

You write to become immortal, or because the piano happens to be open, or you've looked into a pair of beautiful eyes.