With few exceptions, music has been for some centuries the art which has devoted itself not to the reproduction of natural phenomena, but rather to the expression of the artist's soul, in musical sound.

The arts are encroaching one upon another, and from a proper use of this encroachment will rise the art that is truly monumental.

An empty canvas is a living wonder - far lovelier than certain pictures.

There is no must in art because art is free.

With few exceptions, music has been for some centuries the art which has devoted itself not to the reproduction of natural phenomena, but rather to the expression of the artist's soul, in musical sound.

The true work of art is born from the 'artist': a mysterious, enigmatic, and mystical creation. It detaches itself from him, it acquires an autonomous life, becomes a personality, an independent subject, animated with a spiritual breath, the living subject of a real existence of being.

The artist is the hand that, by touching this or that key, sets the soul vibrating automatically.