The angel personifies something new arising from the deep unconscious.

Every form of addiction is bad, no matter whether the narcotic be alcohol or morphine or idealism.

Therein lies the social significance of art: It is constantly at work educating the spirit of the age, conjuring up the forms in which the age is more lacking. The unsatisfied yearning of the artist reaches back to the primordial image in the unconscious, which is best fitted to compensate the inadequacy and one-sidedness of the present. The artist seizes on this image and, in raising it from deepest unconsciousness, he brings it into relation with conscious values, thereby transforming it until it can be accepted by the minds of his contemporaries according to their powers.

The reason for evil in the world is that people are not able to tell their stories.

The most intense conflicts, if overcome, leave behind a sense of security and calm which is not easily disturbed, or else a brokenness that can hardly be healed. Conversely, it is just these intense conflicts and their conflagration which are needed in order to produce valuable and lasting results.

You must go in quest of yourself, and you will find yourself again only in the simple and forgotten things.

Music is the application of sounds to the canvas of silence.