Don't Only Practise Your Art,

I Shall Seize Fate By The Throat.

What You Are, You Are By Accident Of Birth; What I Am, I Am By Myself. There Are And Will Be A Thousand Princes; There Is Only One Beethoven.

From The Glow Of Enthusiasm I Let The Melody Escape. I Pursue It. Breathless I Catch Up With It. It Flies Again, It Disappears, It Plunges Into A Chaos Of Diverse Emotions. I Catch It Again, I Seize It, I Embrace It With Delight... I Multiply It By Modulations, And At Last I Triumph In The First Theme. There Is The Whole Symphony.

Don't Only Practise Your Art, But Force Your Way Into Its Secrets.

Then Let Us All Do What Is Right, Strive With All Our Might Toward The Unattainable, Develop As Fully As We Can The Gifts God Has Given Us, And Never Stop Learning