Art that submits to orthodoxy, to even the soundest doctrines, but lacks imagination and deep self-expression is lost leaving only the craftsmanship.

The individual never asserts himself more than when he forgets himself.

Too chaste a youth leads to a dissolute old age.

To what a degree the same past can leave different marks - and especially admit of different interpretations.

God depends on us. It is through us that God is achieved.

Solitude is bearable only with God.

The artist who is after success lets himself be influenced by the public. Generally such an artist contributes nothing new, for the public acclaims only what it already knows, what it recognizes.