Arthur Rubinstein

Don’t tell me how talented you are. Tell me how hard you work.

Arthur Rubinstein

I have found that if you love life, life will love you back.

Arthur Rubinstein

Most people ask for happiness on condition. Happiness can only be felt if you don’t set any condition.

Arthur Rubinstein

We only begin to live life when we learn to accept it on its own terms.

Arthur Rubinstein

I’m a free person; I feel terribly free. They could put me in chains and I still would be free because my thoughts would be mine – and that’s all I want to have.

Arthur Rubinstein

It took great courage to ask a beautiful young woman to marry me. Believe me, it is easier to play the whole Petrushka on the piano.

Arthur Rubinstein

Life is the game that must be played, this truth at least, good friends, we know; so live and laugh, nor be dismayed as one by one the phantoms go.

Arthur Rubinstein

Music is not a hobby, not even a passion with me; music is me. I feel what people get out of me is this outlook on life, which comes out in my music. My music is the last expression of all that.

Arthur Rubinstein

Of course there is no formula for success except perhaps an unconditional acceptance of life and what it brings.

Arthur Rubinstein

To be alive, to be able to see, to walk, to have houses, music, paintings – it’s all a miracle. I have adopted the technique of living life miracle to miracle.

Arthur Rubinstein