If I Am Not Making Music, I

Collect Impressions. Don't Be In A Hurry To Write Them Down. Because That's Something Music Can Do Better Than Painting: It Can Centralise Variations Of Colour And Light Within A Single Picture A Truth Generally Ignored, Obvious As It Is.

He Was The Incomparable Painter Of Mystery, Silence, And The Infinite, Of The Passing Cloud, And The Sunlit Shimmer Of The Waves-subleties Which None Before Him Had Been Capable Of Suggesting.

Art Is The Most Beautiful Deception Of All!

I Have A Horror Of Sentimentality, And I Cannot Forget That Its Name Is Saint-saëns.

Some People Wish Above All To Conform To The Rules, I Wish Only To Render What I Can Hear.