The purpose of art: to make the unconscious conscious.

Imagination creates reality.

If experiments on animals were abandoned on grounds of compassion, mankind would have made a fundamental advance.

I believe in God, Mozart and Beethoven, and likewise their disciples and apostles; - I believe in the Holy Spirit and the truth of the one, indivisible Art; - I believe that this Art proceeds from God, and lives within the hearts of all illumined men.

The immoral profession of musical criticism must be abolished.

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.

Any so-called stimulus program is a ruse. The government can increase its spending only by reducing private spending equivalently.