“To submit oneself to its unfathomable laws – to be able to tame and direct the own mind, so that it pours out their revelations, that is the isolating principle of art; to be dissolved by its revelation, that is devotion to the divine,  which quietly prac-

tises its domination on the rage of untamed powers, and so makes the imagination most effective.

Thus, art always represents divinity, and man’s relation to it, is religion; that which we acquire through art is from God, divine inspiration, which sets human talent a goal he achieves.

... and although the mind is not in control over that which he creates through it, he is nevertheless blissfully happy in this creation, and so every true creation of art is independent, more powerful than the artist himself, and through its appearance returns to the divine, and is only connected with man in so far as that it bears witness of the conveyance of the divine in him.

Music is the only non-personified access to a higher world of knowledge, which does indeed surround man, but which he is not able to grasp.”