Without enthusiasm nothing great can be effected in art.

Only when the form grows clear to you, will the spirit become so too.

Perhaps only a Genius can truly understand Genius.

When you play, never mind who listens to you.

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.

It was an unforgettable picture to see Chopin sitting at the piano like a clairvoyant, lost in his dreams; to see how his vision communicated itself through his playing, and how, at the end of each piece, he had the sad habit of running one finger over the length of the plaintive keyboard, as though to tear himself forcibly away from his dream.