Art is the most beautiful of all lies.

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Music is the silence between the notes.

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Extreme complication is contrary to art.

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In opera, there is always too much singing.

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A beautiful sunset that was mistaken for a dawn.

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

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If I am not making music, I have no reason for existing.

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

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

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

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