There is always a certain hour of the day and of the night when a man’s courage is at its lowest ebb, and it was that hour only that he feared.

Every artist preserves deep within him a single source from which, throughout his lifetime, he draws what he is, and what he says. When the source dries up, the work withers and crumbles.

Realism should only be the means of expression of religious genius... or, at the other extreme, the artistic expressions of monkeys which are quite satisfied with mere imitation. In fact, art is never realistic though sometimes it is tempted to be. To be really realistic a description would have to be endless.

To know oneself, one should assert oneself.

After all manner of professors have done their best for us, the place we are to get knowledge is in books. The true university of these days is a collection of books.

What is a rebel? A man who says no.

There is so much stubborn hope in the human heart.