“A guilty conscience needs to confess. A work of art is a confession.”
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Truly fertile Music, the only kind that will move us, that we shall truly appreciate, will be a Music conducive to Dream, which banishes all reason and analysis. One must not wish first to understand and then to feel. Art does not tolerate Reason.
Truth, like light, blinds. Falsehood, on the contrary, is a beautiful twilight that enhances every object.
It is a kind of spiritual snobbery that makes people think they can be happy without money.
An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself.
