You Should Neither Play Bad Compositions, Nor,

The Poet Sees Better Than Other Mortals. I Do Not See Things As They Are, But According To My Own Subjective Impression, And This Makes Life Easier And Simpler.

Without Enthusiasm Nothing Great Can Be Effected In Art.

Only When The Form Grows Clear To You, Will The Spirit Become So Too.

It Is The Curse Of Talent That, Although It Labors With Greater Steadiness And Perseverance Than Genius, It Does Not Reach Its Goal, While Genius Already On The Summit Of The Ideal, Gazes Laughingly About.

That First Concept Is Alway The Most Naturally And Best. The Mind Errs, The Emotion Never.