Is An Artist Much More Than A

I Do Not Want Horses Or Diamonds - I Am Happy In Possessing You.

Treasures Are No Longer To Be Got By Instrumental Art.

My Imagination Can Picture No Fairer Happiness Than To Continue Living For Art.

Composing Gives Me Great Pleasure... There Is Nothing That Surpasses The Joy Of Creation, If Only Because Through It One Wins Hours Of Self-forgetfulness, When One Lives In A World Of Sound.

I Cannot Give A Single Concert At Which I Do Not Play One Piece After The Other In An Agony Of Terror Because My Memory Threatens To Fail Me. This Fear Torments Me For Days Beforehand.