The theatre, like the fresco, is art fitted to its place. And therefore it is above all else the human art, the living art.

Mozart was able to do what he wished in music and he never wished to so what was beyond him.

Everything is music for the born musician.

As a result of all his education, from everything he hears and sees around him, the child absorbs such a lot of lies and foolish nonsense, mixed in with essential truths, that the first duty of the adolescent who wants to be a healthy man is to disgorge it all.

Passion is like genius: a miracle.

There are some dead who are more alive than the living.

I know at last what distinguishes man from animals; financial worries.