Music is 'significant form,' and its significance is that of a symbol, a highly articulated, sensuous object, which by virtue of its dynamic structure can express the forms of vital experience which language is peculiarly unfit to convey. Feeling, life, motion and emotion constitute its import.

One can bear anything of which one is able to conceive.

Art is just as comprehensible as science, but in its own terms.

The fairytale is irresponsible; it is frankly imaginary, and its purpose is to gratify wishes, as a dream doth flatter.

Speech is the mark of humanity. It is the normal terminus of thought.

Music is the tonal analogue of emotive life.

Art is the objectification of feeling, and the subjectification of nature.