Music truely has to all other arts the same relation as religion to the church.

One siupreme fact which I have discovered is that it is not willpower, but fantasy and imagination that ceates. Imagination is the creative force. Imagination creates reality.

...music is the living God in our bosoms.

The purpose of art: to make the unconscious conscious.

That even in its sharpest pangs of pain a dog can still caress its master we have learnt from the studies of vivisectors.

When religion becomes artificial, art has a duty to rescue it. Art can show that the symbols which religions would have us believe literally true are actually figurative. Art can idealize those symbols, and so reveal the profound truths they contain.

It is a truth forever, that where the speech of man stops short there Music's reign begins.