- "Works of art make rules; rules do not make works of art."
- "The century of aeroplanes deserves its own music. As there are no precedents, I must create anew."
- "The attraction of the virtuoso for the public is very like that of the circus for the crowd. There is always the hope that something dangerous will happen."
- "Some people wish above all to conform to the rules, I wish only to render what I can hear. There is no theory. You have only to listen. Pleasure is the law."
- "Music is the silence between the notes."
- "Music is the expression of the movement of the waters, the play of curves described by changing breezes."
- "Music is the arithmetic of sounds as optics is the geometry of light."
- "I wish to sing of my interior visions with the naive candour of a child."
- "How much has to be explored and discarded before reaching the naked flesh of feeling."
- "Extreme complication is contrary to art."
- "Beauty must appeal to the senses, must provide us with immediate enjoyment, must impress us or insinuate itself into us without any effort on our part."
- "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."
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