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?

When truth is divided, errors multiply.

The purpose of photography is to create an emotion about the world through what has been carefully seen and selected.

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

The resolution of conflict in self is like the making one of opposites in art.

The world, art, and self explain each other: each is the aesthetic oneness of opposites.

Every work of art is about everything.