Just as every big building has its foundations deep in the earth, so, too, does the structure of human culture on which construction work was done by the millennia. In these dark chambers of the soul are the powers of imagination that once governed all mankind, the titanic family of old wishes and old dreams. When they break out of the depth, they emerge as architectural structures, paintings, poetry and music.
—From Beethoven to Shostakovich: The Psychology of the Composing Process, Max Graf
Philosophical Library, New York (1947)
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