Some people wish above all to conform to the rules, I wish only to render what I can hear. There is no theory. You have only to listen. Pleasure is the law.

Works of art make rules; rules do not make works of art.

People don't very much like things that are beautiful -- they are so far from their nasty little minds.

People come to music to seek oblivion: is that not also a form of deception?

Art is the most beautiful deception of all. And although people try to incorporate the everyday events of life in it, we must hope that it will remain a deception lest it become a utilitarian thing, sad as a factory.

A beautiful sunset that was mistaken for a dawn.