Literature is painting, architecture, and music.
If we have no heretics we must invent them, for heresy is essential to health and growth.
I prefer being wrong in my own way to being right in someone else's.
The highly complex, almost mathematical, nature of music creates for it an ironclad protection against the microbes of dilletantism, which penetrate much more easily into the fields of painting, literature, and the theater.
Dogma, static positions, consonance - all these are obstacles to catching the disease of art, at least in its more complex forms.
