The true artist will let his wife starve, his children go barefoot, his mother drudge for his living at seventy, sooner than work at anything but his art.

我不追随音乐潮流。

学者必须自信，既然自信，无论如何也无法被剥夺。

Pride relates more to our opinion of ourselves, vanity to what we would have others think of us.

艺术不是为了装饰房间。它是一种防御敌人的进攻性武器。