“Only an artist can interpret the meaning of life.”

Love is the final end of the world’s history, the Amen of the universe.

Character is perfectly educated will.

The brains -the thinking organs- are the world producers -nature’s genitals.

What delights, what pleasures does your life offer you that outweigh the raptures of death?

Building worlds is not enough for the deeper urging mind; but a loving heart sates the striving spirit.

Learning is pleasurable but doing is the height of enjoyment.

The artist belongs to his work, not the work to the artist.

The individual soul should seek for an intimate union with the soul of the universe.

We are near awakening when we dream that we dream.

Mathematics is the Life of the Gods.

Accident is simply unforeseen order.

The poem of the understanding is philosophy.

Fate and temperament are the names of a concept.

The badge of honesty is simplicity.

Humanity is the higher meaning of our planet, the nerve that connects this part of it with the upper world, the eye it raises to heaven.

Every disease is a musical problem. Its cure a musical solution. The more rapid and complete the solution, the greater the musical talent of the doctor.

Let not a man do what his sense of right bids him not to do, nor desire what it forbids him to desire. This is sufficient. The skillful artist will not alter his measures for the sake of a stupid workman.

One doesn’t need to know the artist’s private intentions. The work tells all.

I pay tribute to the writing always. The writer is a creative artist and the director is an interpretive artist and the actors are interpretive. You take zero and make it into something, that’s always amazing to me.

The out-of-work actor wears out more than shoe leather. The very sensibilities that make him an artist are shattered by the disregard he is shown as a human being.

Temperament is something that is an integral part of the artist. Not temper, temperament. There is a vast difference.

I don’t want to limit myself as an artist and only do a certain sound.

A musician must make music, an artist must paint, an poet must write, if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself.

A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself. What a man can be, he must be.