The solution of every problem is another problem.
There is no surer method of evading the world than by following Art, and no surer method of linking oneself to it than by Art.
Where the light is brightest, the shadows are deepest.
Plunge boldly into the thick of life!
One never goes further than when they do not know where they are going.
Science and art belong to the whole world, and before them vanish the barriers of nationality.
Few are open to conviction, but the majority of men are open to persuasion.
Music is liquid architecture; Architecture is frozen music.
Those that are firm in their will mold the world to themselves.
The work of art may have a moral effect, but to demand moral purpose from the artist is to make him ruin his work.
It would be a lowly art that allowed itself to be understood all at once.
It is the nature of grace always to fill spaces that have been empty.
The Christian religion, though scattered and abroad will in the end gather itself together at the foot of the cross.
He who possesses art and science has religion; he who does not possess them, needs religion.
One can be instructed in society, one is inspired only in solitude.
Be generous with kindly words, especially about those who are absent.
Devote each day to the object then in time and every evening will find something done.
The intelligent man finds almost everything ridiculous, the sensible man hardly anything.
Personality is everything in art and poetry.
Beauty is everywhere a welcome guest.