John Erskine

“Music is the only language in which you cannot say a mean or sarcastic thing.”

“I have never had so many good ideas day after day as when I worked in the garden.”

“It is fatal to suppose the great writer was too wise or too profound for us ever to understand him; to think of art so is not to praise but to murder it, for the next step after that tribute will be neglect of the masterpiece.”