"A critic should be taught to criticise..." - Quote by Oscar Wilde

“One should absorb the color of life.”

“The proper school to learn art is not life but art”

“The imagination imitates. It is the critical spirit that creates.”

“It is true that the discerning intellect of the world is always much in advance of the creative, so that there are competent judges of the best book, and few writers of the best books.”

“To be a patriot, one had to say, and keep on saying, "Our Country, right or wrong," and urge on the little war. Have you not perceived that that phrase is an insult to the nation?”

“If you don't allow people to contribute, to offer their point of view, or to criticize what has been put before them, then they can never like you. And you can never build that instrument of collective leadership.”

“The pianoforte is the most important of all musical instruments; its invention was to music what the invention of printing was to poetry.”

“As much as I loved the art and discipline of the dance, it didn't love me!”

“If a piece requires some specific inflection, I'll record it. I take a lot of notes, and later categorize them, combining them alongside existing ideas, and eventually put a piece together.”