Music is the mediator between the spiritual and the sensual life.

Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy. Music is the electrical soil in which the spirit lives, thinks and invents.

I wish you music to help with the burdens of life ,and to help you release your happiness to others.

Don't only practice your art, but force your way into its secrets; art deserves that, for it and knowledge can raise man to the Divine.

Life would be flat without music. It is the background to all I do. It speaks to the heart in its own special way like nothing else.

To play without passion is inexcusable!

What I have in my heart and soul - must find a way out. That's the reason for music.

Then let us all do what is right, strive with all our might toward the unattainable, develop as fully as we can the gifts God has given us, and never stop learning

An artist is someone who has learned to trust in himself.

Nothing is more intolerable than to have to admit to yourself your own errors.

Hide your secret even from the closest friend; learn to be silent.

A Christian's mentality should be radically different from that of others in the community.

Seductive pull of the forest, an open canvas for trouble.

Impressionism it is the birth of Light in painting.

Most, if not all, creativity is born out of perspiration rather than inspiration.

What do you expect me to do? Sleep alone?

If you are too attached to your own thinking and how everything is done now, then nothing will change for the better.

I love you too, Will Blakelee," she whispered, leaning in to kiss him again.

The surest mark of a Christian is not faith, or even love, but joy.

It's okay to screw up. It's what we do afterward that defines us.

A creative moment is part of a longer creative process which, in turn, is part of a creative life.