Matter remains, and form is lost.
I hold that the perfection of form and beauty is contained in the sum of all men.
Form is the substance which rises to the surface.
The dignity of art appears perhaps most eminently in music, because in music there is no material factor to be discounted. Music is all form and figure, exalting and ennobling everything it expresses.
Formation, transformation, The eternal mind's eternal recreation.
To create is likewise to give a shape to one's fate.
The child sees everything in a state of newness; he is always drunk. Nothing more resembles what we call inspiration than the delight with which a child absorbs form and color.
