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

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?

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.

Every work of art is about everything.

Originality in art puts charm where it wasn't.

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