The culture of any country is gauged first by its progress in art.
Fatherland before everything, art afterward.
Art is the expression of the immortal part of man.
Music is the only art that actually lives.
Art is great only when it bears the stamp of the individual.
Art must be a slow and normal evolution.
Art without technique is invertebrate, shapeless, characterless.
It is not from choice that my life is music and nothing more, but when one is an artist what else can he be? When a whole lifetime is too short to attain the heights he wants to reach, how then can he devote any of the little time he has to things outside of his art?
