Art Demands Of Us That We Shall

Music Is The Mediator Between The Spiritual And The Sensual Life. Although The Spirit Be Not Master Of That Which It Creates Through Music, Yet It Is Blessed In This Creation, Which, Like Every Creation Of Art, Is Mightier Than The Artist.

What Will Be The Judgment A Century Hence Concerning The Lorded Works Of Our Favorite Composers Today? Inasmuch As Nearly Everything Is Subject To The Changes Of Time, And - More's The Pity- The Fashions Of Time, Only That Which Is Good And True Will Endure Like A Rock And No Wanton Hand Will Ever Venture To Defile It. Then, Let Every Man Do That Which Is Right, Strive With All His Might Towards The Goal Which Can Never Be Obtained, Develop To The Last Breath The Gifts With Which The Gracious Creator Has Endowed Him, And Never Cease To Learn. For Life Is Short, Art Eternal.

Men Are Not Only Together When They Are With Each Other; Even The Distant And The Dead Live With Us.

Artists Who Have Won Fame Are Often Embarrassed By It; Thus Their First Works Are Often Their Best.

Only The Pure In Heart Can Make A Good Soup.