If it is art, it is not for all, and if it is for all, it is not art.

The serious artist should stop flailing his arms in a bid for attention, and instead withdraw into a principled solitude.

In Spring! In the creation of art it must be as it is in Spring!

Great art presupposes the alert mind of the educated listener

An artistic impression is substantially the resultant of two components. One what the work of art gives the onlooker - the other, what he is capable of giving to the work of art.

If music is frozen architecture, then the potpourri is frozen coffee-table gossip... Potpourri is the art of adding apples to pears…

I find above all that the expression, atonal music, is most unfortunate — it is on a par with calling flying the art of not falling, or swimming the art of not drowning.