Music is essentially useless, as life is; but both have an ideal extension which lends utility to its conditions.

A conceived thing is doubly a product of mind, more a product of mind, if you will, than an idea, since ideas arise, so to speak,by the mind's inertia and conceptions of things by its activity. Ideas are mental sediment; conceived things are mental growths.

My atheism, like that of Spinoza, is true piety towards the universe and denies only gods fashioned by men in their own image, to be servants of their human interests.

Graphic design is the paradise of individuality, eccentricity, heresy, abnormality, hobbies and humors.

Tolerated people are never conciliated. They live on, but the aroma of their life is lost.

Men have feverishly conceived a heaven only to find it insipid, and a hell to find it ridiculous.

There is no tyranny so hateful as a vulgar and anonymous tyranny. It is all-permeating, all-thwarting; it blasts every budding novelty and sprig of genius with its omnipresent and fierce stupidity. Such a headless people has the mind of a worm and the claws of a dragon.