Music for a long time has been telling what the world is like. What music has to say now, in a manner that has both logic and emotion in it, is that the world has a structure persons could like; be stronger by.... [If] the world is the oneness of opposites - and music says it is - the world is given an everlastingly sensible basis; for what could be more sensible that to be calm and forceful at once, reposeful and intense at once?

In reality opposites are one; art shows this.

Originality in art puts charm where it wasn't.

Art is a way of showing greater fairness to things than is customary.

Art can make the old surprising, and the new and sudden soothing.

Every work of art is about everything.

When truth is divided, errors multiply.