Good music stirs by its mysterious resemblance to the objects and feelings which motivated it. Life is a horizontal fall. It is not I who become addicted, it is my body. What the public criticizes in you, cultivate. It is you.
Art is science made clear.
An original artist is unable to copy. So he has only to copy in order to be original. True realism consists in revealing the surprising things which habit keeps covered and prevents us from seeing. Wealth is an inborn attitude of mind, like poverty. The pauper who has made his pile may flaunt his spoils, but cannot wear them plausibly.