Of The Truly Creative No One Is

The Dignity Of Art Probably Appears Most Eminently With Music Since It Does Not Have Any Material That Needs To Be Discounted. Music Is All Form And Content And Elevates And Ennobles Everything That It Expresses.

Whoso Shrinks From Ideas Ends By Having Nothing But Sensations.

Devote Each Day To The Object Then In Time And Every Evening Will Find Something Done.

However Often We Turn To It [the Koran] At First Disgusting Us Each Time Afresh, It Soon Attracts, Astounds, And In The End Enforces Our Reverence. . . . Its Style, In Accordance With Its Contents And Aim Is Stern, Grand, Terrible - Ever And Anon Truly Sublime - Thus This Book Will Go On Exercising Through All Ages A Most Potent Influence.

Against Criticism A Man Can Neither Protest Nor Defend Himself; He Must Act In Spite Of It, And Then It Will Gradually Yield To Him.