In order to be created, a work of art must first make use of the dark forces of the soul.
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Without freedom, no art; art lives only on the restraints it imposes on itself, and dies of all others.
A guilty conscience needs to confess. A work of art is a confession.
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.
Art and revolt will die only with the last man.
A man’s work is nothing but this slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great and simple images in whose presence his heart first opened.