Quotes & Notes

For there can be no great sculpture without a beautiful national life, and the commercial spirit of England modern life has killed that; no great drama without a noble national life, and the commercial spirit of England has killed that too.
-- for music is the art in which form and matter are always one, the art whose subject cannot be separated from the method of its expression, the art which most completely realises the artistic ideal, and is the condition to which all the other arts are constantly aspiring.