The object of art is not to produce riches. Become a great artist, and all other desirable accessories will fall to your lot.
The Spirit will not become clear to you, before you understand the Forms of composition.
Perhaps genius alone understands genius fully.
It has been thought that a perfect musician must be able to see, in his mind's eye, any new, and even complicated, piece of orchestral music as if in full score lying before him! This is indeed the greatest triumph of musical intellect that can be imagined.
There is no end of learning.