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.

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

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

Every work of art is about everything.

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?

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