Life Is The Space Between Our Things.

To Complete A Work Is Just Like Being Present At The Death Of Someone You Love.

Collect Impressions. Don't Be In A Hurry To Write Them Down. Because That's Something Music Can Do Better Than Painting: It Can Centralise Variations Of Colour And Light Within A Single Picture A Truth Generally Ignored, Obvious As It Is.

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.

Music Begins Where Words Are Powerless To Express. Music Is Made For The Inexpressible. I Want Music To Seem To Rise From The Shadows And Indeed Sometimes To Return To Them.

[on Richard Wagner] A Beautiful Sunset That Was Mistaken For A Dawn.