The painter has had to transcribe what he sees, the musician to capture the delicate intervals that have thrilled his inner ear-but if the painter's thought has been absorbed in the forms that he is depicting, if the musician has lost himself among the airy harmonies, the sweet progressions, these things must have drawn them away from life, and secluded them in a paradise of emotion; but with me it has been different; for it is life itself that has palpitated in my pages, my very heart's blood has been driven by eager pulsations through sentence and phrase; and the book is thus a part of myself in a way in which no picture and no melody can be.
"The Silent Isle"
Arthur Christopher Benson
Brahms was a fraud who patched up a compound of Beethoven and Schumann, put in a lot of mystifying harmonic progressions, and thought he was new.
"Melomaniacs"
James Huneker
The principles of development in which it centres were conceived by Hegel himself to manifest themselves most clearly in the progressions of nature and history.
"The Approach to Philosophy"
Ralph Barton Perry