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Music Begins Where Words Are Powerless To Express. Music Is Made For The Inexpressible. I Want Music To Seem To Rise From The Shadows And Indeed Sometimes To Return To Them.

I Wish To Sing Of My Interior Visions With The Naive Candour Of A Child.

Collect Impressions. Don't Be In A Hurry To Write Them Down. Because That's Something Music Can Do Better Than Painting: It Can Centralise Variations Of Colour And Light Within A Single Picture A Truth Generally Ignored, Obvious As It Is.

What I Am Trying To Do Is Something Different - An Effect Of Reality, But What Some Fools Call Impressionism, A Term That Is Usually Misapplied, Especially By The Critics Who Don't Hesitate To Apply It To Turner, The Greatest Creator Of Mysterious Effects In The Whole World Of Art.

Composers Aren't Daring Enough. They're Afraid Of That Sacred Idol Called 'common Sense', Which Is The Most Dreadful Thing I Know - After All, It's No More Than A Religion Founded To Excuse The Ubiquity Of Imbeciles!