“Don't only practice your art, but force your way into its secrets; art...” — Ludwig van Beethoven Quote

“Don't only practice your art, but force your way into its secrets; art deserves that, for it and knowledge can raise man to the Divine.”

“Music is the mediator between the spiritual and the sensual life.”

“I only live in my music, and I have scarcely begun one thing when I start on another. As I am now working, I am often engaged on three or four things at the same time.”

“Art doesn't transform. It just plain forms.”

“What I wanted to do was to paint sunlight on the side of a house.”

“If the universal is the essential, then it is the basis of all life and art. Recognizing and uniting with the universal therefore gives us the greatest aesthetic satisfaction, the greatest emotion of beauty.”