Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils.

At least I have the modesty to admit that lack of modesty is one of my failings.

Love cannot express the idea of music, while music may give an idea of love.

Every composer knows the anguish and despair occasioned by forgetting ideas which one had no time to write down.

When I work on sculpture, I don't have to worry about function. When I work on a piece of architecture, I must think about function all the time.

Art must take reality by surprise.

The vitality of a new movement in Art must be gauged by the fury it arouses.

The works must be conceived with fire in the soul but executed with clinical coolness.

One must always draw, draw with the eyes, when one cannot draw with a pencil.

Pictures must not be too picturesque.