[on Richard Wagner] A Beautiful Sunset That

There Is No Theory. You Have Only To Listen. Pleasure Is The Law. I Love Music Passionately. And Because L Love It, I Try To Free It From Barren Traditions That Stifle It. It Is A Free Art Gushing Forth, An Open-air Art Boundless As The Elements, The Wind, The Sky, The Sea. It Must Never Be Shut In And Become An Academic Art.

Some People Wish Above All To Conform To The Rules, I Wish Only To Render What I Can Hear.

Works Of Art Make Rules But Rules Do Not Make Works Of Art.

Music Is The Arithmetic Of Sounds As Optics Is The Geometry Of Light.

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