Fire is a natural symbol of life and passion, though it is the one element in which nothing can actually live.

Music is the tonal analogue of emotive life.

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

The arts objectify subjective reality, and subjectify outward experience of nature. Art education is the education of feeling, and a society that neglects it gives itself up to formless emotion. Bad art is corruption of feeling.

We have no physical model of this endless rhythm of individuation and involvement, we do have its image in the world of art, most purely in dance.

The historian does not locate known facts in a hypothetical, general pattern of processes; his aim is to link fact to fact, one unique knowable event to another individual one that begot it.

Pioneering is the work of individuals.