“Music is an art and a day full of meaning”

“Life has been your art. You have set yourself to music. Your days are your sonnets.”

“Just because Beethoven doesn’t sound like currently popular art doesn’t mean his music is worthless.”

“On a Clear Day: Art work that is completely abstract - free from any expression of the environment is like music and can be responded to in the same way. Our response to line and tone and color is the same as our response to sounds... It holds meaning for us that is beyond expression in words.
These prints [title, 'On a Clear Day'] express innocence of mind. If you can go with them and hold your mind as empty and tranquil as they are and recognize your feelings at the same time you will realize your full response to this work.”

“In old days the plastic arts, music, and poesy were so germane to man in his totality that his Transcendence plainly manifest in them. … What is to-day obvious to all is a decay in the essence of art. … the opposition to man's true nature as man.”

“The error in the art-genre of Opera consists herein: a Means of expression (Music) has been made the end, while the End of expression (the Drama) has been made a means.”

“Music and silence… combine strongly because music is done with silence, and silence is full of music.”

“Hell is full of musical amateurs.”

“Music, of all the arts, stands in a special region, unlit by any star but its own, and utterly without meaning… except its own.”

“Music is the deepest of the arts and deep beneath the arts.”