Don't Only Practise Your Art, But Force

You Ask Me Where I Get My Ideas. That I Cannot Tell You With Certainty. They Come Unsummoned, Directly, Indirectly - I Could Seize Them With My Hands - Out In The Open Air, In The Woods, While Walking, In The Silence Of The Nights, At Dawn, Excited By Moods Which Are Translated By The Poet Into Words, By Me Into Tones That Sound And Roar And Storm About Me Till I Have Set Them Down In Notes.

I Would Rather Write 10,000 Notes Than A Single Letter Of The Alphabet.

An Artist Is Someone Who Has Learned To Trust In Himself.

What Is To Reach The Heart Must Come From Above; If It Does Not Come From Thence, It Will Be Nothing But Notes, Body Without Spirit.

The Music Is The Only Corporeal Introduction To The Superior World Of Knowledge.