"Music fathoms the sky."

"To say the word Romanticism is to say modern art - that is, intimacy, spirituality, color, aspiration towards the infinite, expressed by every means available to the arts."

"Poetry and progress are like two ambitious men who hate one another with an instinctive hatred, and when they meet upon the same road, one of them has to give place."

"What is art? Prostitution."

"When I look at great works of art or listen to inspired music, I sense intimate portraits of the specific times in which they were created."

"Art is never finished, only abandoned."

"The art of living is discovering that every ending is merely a new beginning in disguise."

"For true love is inexhaustible; the more you give, the more you have. And if you go to draw at the true fountainhead, the more water you draw, the more abundant is its flow."