Progress is the realization of utopia.

The fact is, the public make use of the classics of a country as a means of checking the progress of Art. They degrade the classics into authorities. They use them as bludgeons for preventing the free expression of Beauty in new forms.

What the hell is an oboe?

They have been eating muffins. That looks like repentance

The only thing that one really knows about human nature is that it changes. Change is the one quality we can predicate of it.

Despotism is unjust to everybody, including the despot, who was probably made for better things.

Spontaneity is a meticulously prepared art