As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.
Where we have strong emotions, we're liable to fool ourselves.
The crowd gives the leader new strength.
I said to myself, I have things in my head that are not like what anyone has taught me - shapes and ideas so near to me - so natural to my way of being and thinking that it hasn't occurred to me to put them down. I decided to start anew, to strip away what I had been taught.
I don't like composers who think. It gets in the way of their plagiarism.
Think of yourself as an incandescent power, illuminated and perhaps forever talked to by God and his messengers.
Illusions are art, for the feeling person, and it is by art that you live, if you do.