Art is possible only if man is different from nature, if man is a stranger in it--that is, if he is a personality. All art is a continuous story of man's foreignness in nature.

Raphael created his paintings not with his hands but with his spirit. Beethoven wrote his best compositions when he was already deaf.

There is an order to an engine and an order to a melody. These two orders cannot, even in the final analysis, be reduced to a common source... The existence of another world (another order) in addition to the natural one is the basic premise of every religion and art.

Uostalom, smisao sve umjetnosti, filozofije, religije upravo je to skretanje čovjekove pažnje na zagonetke, na tajne, na pitanja; to je buđenje naše svijesti, često možda ka nekom znanju i poznavanju, nego pretvaranju našeg neznanja kojeg nismo svjesni u neznanje kojeg smo svjesni.

Science attempts to figure out laws and then uses it later. While the work of art reflects the cosmic order without asking for an explanation