To send light into the darkness of men's hearts - such is the duty of the artist.

Think it a vile habit to alter works of good composers, to omit parts of them, or to insert new-fashioned ornaments. This is the greatest insult you can offer to Art.

Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better.

The artist one day falls through a hole in the brambles, and from that moment he is following the dark rapids of an underground river which may sometimes flow so near to the surface that the laughing picnic parties are heard above.

Give me a museum and I'll fill it.

Art for art's sake is a philosophy of the well-fed.