You know that I immerse myself in music, so to speak— that I think about it all day long— that I like experimenting— studying— reflecting.

Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.

To talk well and eloquently is a very great art, but that an equally great one is to know the right moment to stop.

The music is not in the notes, but in the silence between.

What's even worse than a flute? - Two flutes!

If you would dance, my pretty Count, I'll play the tune on my little guitar..

I pay no attention whatever to anybody's praise or blame. I simply follow my own feelings.

Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love love love that is the soul of genius.

I write as a sow piddles.

We live in this world in order always to learn industriously and to enlighten each other by means of discussion and to strive vigorously to promote the progress of science and the fine arts.

I thank my God for graciously granting me the opportunity of learning that death is the key which unlocks the door to our true happiness.

Good friends are like angels. You don't have to see them to know they are there for you.

There is no such thing as an artist: there is only the world lit or unlit as the light allows. When the candle is burning, who looks at the wick? When the candle is out, who needs it?

The map of America is a map of endlessness, of opening out, of forever and ever. No man's face would make you think of it but his hope might, his courage might.

Nothing's hopeless except never trying.

Never has my flabber been so completely gasted.

I like different shoes with different themes for different reasons.

The act of not discussing or confiding the event with another may be more damaging than having experienced the event per se.

There are times for inner changes. Be ready for the choice!

Don't hesitate to learn the most painful aspects of our history, understand it.

It wouldn't be right for me to clown around when I'm painting a president.