I wish to sing of my interior visions with the naive candour of a child.

Music is the silence between the notes.

People come to music to seek oblivion: is that not also a form of deception?

First of all, ladies and gentlemen, you must forget that you are singers.

Art is the most beautiful of all lies.

Some people wish above all to conform to the rules, I wish only to render what I can hear. There is no theory. You have only to listen. Pleasure is the law.

A beautiful sunset that was mistaken for a dawn.

Extreme complication is contrary to art.

Beauty must appeal to the senses, must provide us with immediate enjoyment, must impress us or insinuate itself into us without any effort on our part.

How much has to be explored and discarded before reaching the naked flesh of feeling.

There is nothing is more musical than a sunset. He who feels what he sees will find no more beautiful example of development in all that book which, alas, musicians read but too little - the book of Nature.

I love music passionately. And because I love it I try to free it from barren traditions that stifle it.

Music is the expression of the movement of the waters, the play of curves described by changing breezes.

Works of art make rules; rules do not make works of art.

I wish to sing of my interior visions with the naive candour of a child.

The century of airplanes has a right to its own music.

Art is the most beautiful deception of all. And although people try to incorporate the everyday events of life in it, we must hope that it will remain a deception lest it become a utilitarian thing, sad as a factory.

In opera, there is always too much singing.

Music is the arithmetic of sounds as optics is the geometry of light.

The attraction of the virtuoso for the public is very like that of the circus for the crowd. There is always the hope that something dangerous will happen.

People don't very much like things that are beautiful.. they are so far from their nasty little minds.

Facts do not speak for themselves. They speak for or against competing theories. Facts divorced from theories or visions are mere isolated curiosities.

Rude contact with facts chased my visions and dreams quickly away, and in their stead I beheld the horrors, the corruption, the evils and hypocrisy of society, and as I stood among them, a young wife, a great wail of agony went out from my soul.

I prefer to be a dreamer among the humblest, with visions to be realized, than lord among those without dreams and desires.

The founding fathers were not only brilliant, they were system builders and systematic thinkers. They came up with comprehensive plans and visions.

Chicago is a city of contradictions, of private visions haphazardly overlaid and linked together.

Visions of glory, spare my aching sight.

Cherish your visions and your dreams, as they are the children of your soul; the blueprints of your ultimate achievements.

I try to avoid long-range plans and visions - that way I can more easily deal with anything new that comes up.

If art has a purpose, it is to interpret life, reproduce it in fresh visions.

I like to behave in an extremely normal, wholesome manner for the most part in my daily life. Even if mentally I'm consumed with sick visions of violence, terror, sex and death.

Illusions of grandeur are not the same as visions of greatness.

Each one of us, and, indeed, all those who aspire to national leadership must bring their own visions, views and styles to the business of reforming Nigeria, and the search for solutions.

Visions describe what best should be, could be - if and when mankind has the will to make them real.

Today the traveller on the Nile enters a wonderland at whose gates rise the colossal pyramids of which he has had visions perhaps from earliest childhood.

Something new has taken place in the past five to eight years. Technologists are providing almost religious visions, and their ideas are resonating in some ways with the same idea of the Rapture.

I'm often called an old-fashioned modernist. But the modernists had the absurd idea that architecture could heal the world. That's impossible. And today nobody expects architects to have these grand visions any more.

I came here as a man of visions. I was sent here as a man of visions, like a second Noah. I'm not a Noah but I'm here as a second Noah. I'm here as a red light is in the street.

Eighty percent of what everyone's talking about never happens. I don't mean in terms of product development that's happening right now, I'm talking about the far-flung visions of the future.

Our visions begin with our desires.

The life of a man consists not in seeing visions and in dreaming dreams, but in active charity and in willing service.

I like to feel that all my best photographs had strong personal visions and that a photograph that doesn't have a personal vision or doesn't communicate emotion fails.

Instant telecommunication allows better and updated information, lessons learnt and problems encountered to be exchanged and debated, it alerts us more quickly to problems and brings to many households around the world visions and information which hopefully spur us to action.

I have these visions of myself being thirty, thirty-five, forty having a family.

The important achievement of Apollo was demonstrating that humanity is not forever chained to this planet and our visions go rather further than that and our opportunities are unlimited.

The ultimate function of prophecy is not to tell the future, but to make it. Your successful past will block your visions of the future.

What ordinary men are directly aware of and what they try to do are bounded by the private orbits in which they live; their visions and their powers are limited.

I have been blessed to see visions of eternity; and events in my future that have been important for me to foresee, have been revealed to me.

Individuals approaching death often experience encounters with their dead relatives, who seem to welcome them to the next world. These deathbed visions are authentic and convincing; they are often followed by a state of euphoria and seem to ease the transition.