Treat a work of art like a prince: let it speak to you first.

The effect of music is so very much more powerful and penetrating than is that of the other arts, for these others speak only of the shadow, but music of the essence.

The law of simplicity and naïveté applies to all fine art, for it is compatible with what is most sublime.

The general history of art and literature shows that the highest achievements of the human mind are, as a rule, not favourably received at first.