Music for a long time has been telling what the world is like. What music has to say now, in a manner that has both logic and emotion in it, is that ….

Reality is all that which can affect one..

The world, art, and self explain each other: each is the aesthetic oneness of opposites..

Is there in painting an effect which arises from the being together of repose and energy in the artist's mind? - can both repose and energy be seen i….

The purpose of photography is to create an emotion about the world through what has been carefully seen and selected..

Is there in every work of art something which shows reality as one and also something which shows reality as many and diverse? - must every work of a….

You don't want to see things as they are because your ego would have to admit that things outside yourself are necessary for the self to be. You stil….

Concealment is equated, unknowingly to ourselves, with individuality; the more we conceal the more it seems we are asserting our very personality, re….

We should see the desire for neatness, the desire for sharp impressions, as a desire in art..

The resolution of conflict in self is like the making one of opposites in art..

In reality opposites are one; art shows this..

The universe is Why, How, and What, in any order, and all at once..

There is a quality of murky grandeur we give ourselves in having our own feelings, recoiling, separate from other things... To feel that we can care ….

In order to be deep, we sometimes have to cut through and cut apart. That is to be seen in the common phrase, 'Cut it out!' The reason is that this t….

The most important thing for you to do is see that in hoping to be affected by other things as fully as possible, you become more yourself..

One of the things called forth by the Imagist movement in poetry was neatness; and when we say keenness, we mean neatness. A knife that is keen is al….

True individuality is the repose arising from the relation of a self to all it has to do with. Bad individuality has in it a separation between outwa….

Art is a way of showing greater fairness to things than is customary..

To see the outside world as the same stuff as our most secret or unknown thoughts is a fine necessity..

If a mistake is not a stepping stone, it is a mistake..

There is not one thing that music does which does not say something about how a person should organize himself, too..