"Existence and the world seem justified only as an aesthetic phenomenon. In this sense, it is precisely the tragic myth that has come to convince us that even the ugly and disharmonic are part of an artistic game that the will in the eternal amplitude of its pleasure plays with itself. But this primordial phenomenon of Dionysian art is difficult to grasp, and there is only one direct way to make it intelligible and grasp it immediately: through the wonderful significance of musical dissonance."
Paul Hegarty
