It should be one’s sole endeavor to see everything afresh and create it anew.

Tradition is not the worship of ashes, but the preservation of fire.

If a composer could say what he had to say in words he would not bother trying to say it in music.

Beauty and fullness of tone can be achieved by having the whole orchestra play with high clarinets and a carefully selected number of piccolos.

You must renounce all superficiality, all convention, all vanity and delusion.

The point is not to take the world's opinion as a guiding star but to go one's way in life and working unerringly, neither depressed by failure nor seduced by applause.

What is best in music is not to be found in the notes.

A symphony must be like the world. It must contain everything.

But it's peculiar, as soon as I am in the midst of nature and by myself, everything that is base and trivial vanishes without trace. On such days nothing scares me; and this helps me again and again.

I am hitting my head against the walls, but the walls are giving way.

If you think you're boring your audience, go slower not faster.

Painting is poetry that is seen rather than felt, and poetry is painting that is felt rather than seen.

I only read biographies, metaphysics and psychology. I can dream up my own fiction.

There are those that can and those that can't, which catagory are you???

The person doing the worrying experiences it as a form of love

Zen phrase says The instant you speak about a thing you miss the mark.

I also grew up with community co-parents who looked out for each other. They looked out for children and tried to be the hands of God. They tried to live their faith.

On my own account I certainly wouldn't have become the director of a couture house. I didn't have sufficient admiration for fashion as such to have done so.

To succeed takes more than the desire to win. It also takes the acceptance that we could fail.

If this is the way You treat Your friends, no wonder You have so few!

Other seasons come abruptly but ask so little when they do. Winter is the only one that has to be relearned.