Art Always Demands Of Us Something New.

It Is My Belief One Should Not Belittle The Artist; While, However Glorious His Fame May Seem, His Time On Mount Olympus As An Honourable Guest Of Zeus Is Short. It's A Pity, But All Too Eager Will The Common Folk Drag Him From This Etherial Heights To The Low And Trodden Earth.

Recommend Virtue To Your Children, That Alone - Not Wealth - Can Give Happiness. It Upholds In Adversity And The Thought Of It And My Art Prevents Me From Putting An End To My Life.

Recommend To Your Children To Be Virtuous, Only The Virtue Can Bring Us Happiness, Not The Money.

I Liked Your Opera. I Think I Will Set It To Music.

I Alter Some Things, Eliminate And Try Again Until I Am Satisfied. Then Begins The Mental Working Out Of This Material In Its Breadth, Its Narrowness, Its Height And Depth.