Seldom is a Gothic head more beautiful than when broken.
Man knows that the world is not made on a human scale; and he wishes that it were.
What is Man? A miserable little pile of secrets.
To love a painting is to feel that this presence is ... not an object but a voice.
To understand what the outside of an aquarium looks like, it's better not to be a fish.
The world of art is not a world of immortality but of metamorphosis.