Generosity is a two-edged virtue for an artist - it nourishes his imagination but has a fatal effect on his routine.

We never know beforehand how new posts or new work will change us.

Friends! Let us try to help if we are worth anything at all!

Art thaws even the frozen, darkened soul, opening it to lofty spiritual experience.

That which is called humanism, but what would be more correctly called irreligious anthropocentrism, cannot yield answers to the most essential questions of our life

... We brush aside all scales not our own, as if they were follies or delusions.

There is a law of time, a law of oblivion: glory to the dead; life to the living.