If you would dance, my pretty Count, I'll play the tune on my little guitar..

Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.

To talk well and eloquently is a very great art, but that an equally great one is to know the right moment to stop.

The music is not in the notes, but in the silence between.

What's even worse than a flute? - Two flutes!

You know that I immerse myself in music, so to speak— that I think about it all day long— that I like experimenting— studying— reflecting.

I pay no attention whatever to anybody's praise or blame. I simply follow my own feelings.

Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love love love that is the soul of genius.

I write as a sow piddles.

We live in this world in order always to learn industriously and to enlighten each other by means of discussion and to strive vigorously to promote the progress of science and the fine arts.

I thank my God for graciously granting me the opportunity of learning that death is the key which unlocks the door to our true happiness.

I dare play the game of life.

I am an old man and have known a great many troubles, but most of them never happened.

Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones.

My breakthrough came very late in life, really only starting when I was 50...I had the strength for new deeds and ideas.

One always has to spoil a picture a little bit, in order to finish it.

I should have had a circuitous answer; that was a non-answer.

The only way to avoid age discrimination in Hollywood is to die young.

Plastic shoes are to the shoe world what fast food is to fine cuisine.

In Europe they understand that the arts are incredibly important both culturally and economically.

I've imparted that philosophy to the writers, but some of them look stuff up while some don't. Same with the editors, directors and actors. To each their own.