The reason we go to poetry is not for wisdom, but for the dismantling of wisdom
I have never seen faces, but because I have looked people in the eye, only their gazes.
If it is art, it is not for all, and if it is for all, it is not art.
Music is only understood when one goes away singing it and only loved when one falls asleep with it in one's head, and finds it still there on waking up the next morning.
There is still plenty of good music to be written in C major.
I find above all that the expression, atonal music, is most unfortunate — it is on a par with calling flying the art of not falling, or swimming the art of not drowning.
I never was very capable of expressing my feelings or emotions in words. I don't know whether this is the cause why I did it in music and also why I did it in painting. Or vice versa: That I had this way as an outlet. I could renounce expressing something in words.
For tommorow belongs to those that prepare for it today.
For obviously the advantage for most writers is that no one sees them. The writer is invisible, which confers power.
The same animal which hath the honour to have some part of his flesh eaten at the table of a duke, may perhaps be degraded in another part,and some of his limbs gibbeted, as it were, in the vilest stall in town.
Men who have greatness within them don't go in for politics.