That is Why...

I came across the following quote by composer Jean Sibelius from a 1919 interview and thought the sentiment could apply equally well to any non-verbal creative endeavor: dance, painting, photography...etc.:

If I could express the same thing with words as with music, I would, of course, use a verbal expression.  Music is something autonomous and much richer.  Music begins where the possibilities of language end.  That is why I write music.