A beautiful sunset that was mistaken for a dawn.

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 ...

Art is the most beautiful of all lies.

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.

Extreme complication is contrary to art.

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

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

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

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

In opera, there is always too much singing.