Only the pure in heart can make a good soup.

Anyone who tells a lie has not a pure heart, and cannot make a good soup.

Music should strike fire from the heart of man, and bring tears from the eyes of woman.

There ought to be an artistic depot where the artist need only hand in his artwork in order to receive what he asks for. As things are, one must be half a business man, and how can one understand - good heavens! - that's what I really call troublesome.

Recommend virtue to your children; it alone, not money, can make them happy. I speak from experience.

Don't only practice your art, but force your way into its secrets; art deserves that, for it and knowledge can raise man to the Divine.