By concentrating on precision, one arrives at technique, but by concentrating on technique one does not arrive at precision.

Cinema is made to film material: the body. By filming the material, the mechanical, the worker, we arrive at the spiritual.

It is glorious to become a learner again at my time of life.

For the works of the creative spirit last, they are essentially imperishable, while the world-stirring historical activities of even the most eminent men are circumscribed by time.

Our inmost yearning, our deep desire for harmony in an extra-musical, transcendental sense feels affirmed, confirmed and calmed by music, and in this sense music seems to me a message a lofty ethical message that brings good tidings to the ethical part of our being from the mysteries of the world of sound.

Music springs from and is replenished by a hidden source which lies outside the world or reality. Music ever spoke to me of a mysterious world beyond, which moved my heart deeply and eloquently intimated its transcendental nature.