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. 2.35K
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. 2.49K
Ah, mon cher, for anyone who is alone, without God and without a master, the weight of days is dreadful. 620
You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life. 685
How can sincerity be a condition of friendship? A taste for truth at any cost is a passion which spares nothing. 624
Don’t walk behind me; I may not lead. Don’t walk in front of me; I may not follow. Just walk beside me and be my friend. 665
Without freedom, no art; art lives only on the restraints it imposes on itself, and dies of all others. 680
After all manner of professors have done their best for us, the place we are to get knowledge is in books. The true university of these days is a collection of books. 2.48K
Don’t walk in front of me, I may not follow. Don’t walk behind me, I may not lead. Walk beside me and be my friend. 644
