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These are the soul’s changes. I don’t believe in ageing. I believe in forever altering one’s aspect to the sun. Hence my optimism.

The soul, fortunately, has an interpreter – often an unconscious, but still a truthful interpreter – in the eye.

Electric communication will never be a substitute for the face of someone who with their soul encourages another person to be brave and true.

Music is the movement of sound to reach the soul for the education of its virtue.

To go to the world below, having a soul which is like a vessel full of injustice, is the last and worst of all the evils.

I am a soul. I know well that what I shall render up to the grave is not myself. That which is myself will go elsewhere. Earth, thou art not my abyss!

Were I called on to define, very briefly, the term Art, I should call it ‘the reproduction of what the Senses perceive in Nature through the veil of the soul.’ The mere imitation, however accurate, of what is in Nature, entitles no man to the sacred name of ‘Artist.’

Once conform, once do what other people do because they do it, and a lethargy steals over all the finer nerves and faculties of the soul. She becomes all outer show and inward emptiness; dull, callous, and indifferent.

The great art of films does not consist of descriptive movement of face and body but in the movements of thought and soul transmitted in a kind of intense isolation.

As long as the songs are strong, I think you can express yourself in any style and have it be soulful and have it be your own voice.