Great Throughts Treasury

"The essential conditions of everything you do must be choice, love, passion."

"A great work of art is made out of a combination of obedience and liberty."

"Loving a child doesn't mean giving in to all his whims; to love him is to bring out the best in him, to teach him to love what is difficult."

"Life is denied by lack of attention, whether it be to cleaning windows or trying to write a masterpiece."

"Everything we know by heart enriches us and helps us find ourselves. If it should get in the way of finding ourselves, it is because we have no personality."

"The art of music is so deep and profound that to approach it very seriously only is not enough. One must approach music with a serious rigor and, at the same time, with a great, affectionate joy."

"It is one thing to be gifted and quite another thing to be worthy of one's own gift."

"Nothing is better than music... it has done more for us than we have the right to hope for."

"Liberty has never come from the government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of it. The history of liberty is a history."