An Artist Is Someone Who Has Learned

Don't Only Practise Your Art, But Force Your Way Into Its Secrets.

Music Should Strike Fire From The Heart Of Man, And Bring Tears From The Eyes Of Woman.

Oh You Men Who Think Or Say That I Am Malevolent, Stubborn, Or Misanthropic, How Greatly Do You Wrong Me. You Do Not Know The Secret Cause Which Makes Me Seem That Way To You. Oh How Harshly Was I Flung Back By The Doubly Sad Experience Of My Bad Hearing.

A Great Poet Is The Most Precious Jewel Of A Nation.

I Can Live Only Wholly With You Or Not At All.