The essence of higher instrumental music lays herein that one is able to express in tones that what one is unable to say in words.
Richard WagnerIt is impossible to communicate with Schumann. The man is hopeless; he doesn't talk at all.
Richard WagnerWhen 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.
Richard WagnerThose who grasp the whole, will also comprehend all parts of that whole, even when immediate technical understanding is lacking, and recognize and marshal these.
Richard Wagner