I Can't Understand Why People Are Frightened

People Who Aren't Artists Often Feel That Artists Are Inspired. But If You Work At Your Art You Don't Have Time To Be Inspired.

The World Is Teeming; Anything Can Happen.

Everything You Do Is Music, And Everywhere Is The Best Seat.

After I Had Been Studying With Him For Two Years, Schoenberg Said, ‘in Order To Write Music, You Must Have A Feeling For Harmony.’ I Explained To Him That I Had No Feeling For Harmony. He Then Said That I Would Always Encounter An Obstacle, That It Would Be As Though I Came To A Wall Through Which I Could Not Pass. I Said, ‘in That Case I Will Devote My Life To Beating My Head Against That Wall.’

An Artist Conscientiously Moves In A Direction Which For Some Good Reason He Takes, Putting One Work In Front Of The Other With The Hope He'll Arrive Before Death Overtakes Him.