All beauty is a making one of opposites, and the making one of opposites is what we are going after in ourselves.
Art can make the old surprising, and the new and sudden soothing.
There is not one thing that music does which does not say something about how a person should organize himself, too.
If a mistake is not a stepping stone, it is a mistake.
Originality in art puts charm where it wasn't.
Concealment is equated, unknowingly to ourselves, with individuality; the more we conceal the more it seems we are asserting our very personality, resisting a somewhat repellent, unwelcome intrusion of other things into ourselves.