Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent.
The human soul has still greater need of the ideal than of the real. It is by the real that we exist; it is by the ideal that we live.
Liberation is not deliverance.
Let us leave to the brain what belongs to it, and agree that the work of the men of genius is of the superhuman, the offspring of man.
God manifests himself to us in the first degree through the life of the universe, and in the second degree through the thought of man. The second manifestation is not less holy than the first. The first is named Nature, the second is named Art.
Genius is a promontory jutting out into the infinite.