Art is always and everywhere the secret confession and at the same time the immortal movement of its time.
A guilty conscience needs to confess. A work of art is a confession.
In an age when the fashion is to be in love with yourself confessing to be in love with somebody else is an admission of unfaithfulness to one's beloved.
I have the problems of I must confess old age.
I must confess I was born at a very early age.