Art is the funnel, as it were, through which spirit is poured into life.

What good would politics be, if it didn’t give everyone the opportunity to make moral compromises.

If you are possessed by an idea, you find it expressed everywhere, you even smell it.

Laughter is a sunbeam of the soul.

Thought that can merge wholly into feeling, feeling that can merge wholly into thought - these are the artist's highest joy.

He thought what a fine thing it was that people made music all over the world, even in the strangest settings – probably even on polar expeditions.

A harmful truth is better than a useful lie.