All I know about method is that when I am not working I sometimes think I know something, but when I am working, it is quite clear I know nothing.
The emotions - love, mirth, the heroic, wonder, tranquility, fear, anger, sorrow, disgust - are in the audience.
Art's purpose is to sober and quiet the mind so that it is in accord with what happens.
Art is sort of an experimental station in which one tries out living.
Music is edifying, for from time to time it sets the soul in operation.
Now that things are so simple, there's so much to do.