Every dogma has its day.
I think art is sublimated libido. You can’t be a eunuch priest, and you can’t be a eunuch artist.
As a chamber hung round about with looking-glasses represents the face upon every turn, thus all the world doth the mercy and the bounty of God; though that be visible, yet it discovers an invisible God and his invisible properties.
If you expect the worst from a person you can never be disappointed.
I was always on my oddy knocky.
A Haydn symphony had a meaning for the social group that listened to it. A Mahler symphony had a meaning for the man who composed it. Here is the difference between the classical and romantic attitudes to art.