I can't distract myself enough here, for sketches to a new opera are constantly buzzing around in my head, to the extent that I need all my strength to wrest myself from them.

Music is the inarticulate speech of the heart, which cannot be compressed into words, because it is infinite.

Joy is not in things; it is in us.

The purpose of art: to make the unconscious conscious.

I regard the Jewish race as the born enemy of pure humanity and everything that is noble in it.

Never look at the trombones, it only encourages them.

Imagination creates reality.

The language of tones belongs equally to all mankind, and melody is the absolute language in which the musician speaks to every heart.

It is a truth forever, that where the speech of man stops short there Music's reign begins.

We must learn to die, and to die in the fullest sense of the word. The fear of the end is the source of all lovelessness

A political man is disgusting, but a political wife, horrible.

I have no special desire to go crawl around in caves, but I really like the word [spelunking] and want to use it in conversation. I do a lot of things just to use words I like.

And what do you believe?”A slow smile spread over his face. “I believe in you. You are my new beginning.

In searching for himself, he had come to understand that he was defined by selflessness

Through my education, I didn't just develop skills, I didn't just develop the ability to learn, but I developed confidence.

But for we could not know right from wrong. All things most desirable for man's welfare... are to be found portrayed in it.

So the opposite of addiction is not sobriety. It is human connection.

Movement overcomes cold.

The paintings are kind of set in the past, present, and future all at once.

I don't think the Republican Party is against women.

I've been blessed with the opportunity to express the views of black people who otherwise don't have access to power and the media. I have to take advantage of that while I'm still bankable.