There is not one thing that music does which does not say something about how a person should organize himself, too.

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

If a mistake is not a stepping stone, it is a mistake.

Originality in art puts charm where it wasn't.

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

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?

Every work of art is about everything.