Always, however brutal an age may actually have been, its style transmits its music only.
One cannot create an art that speaks to men when one has nothing to say.
The truth of a man is first and foremost what he hides.
Seldom is a Gothic head more beautiful than when broken.
To command is to serve, nothing more and nothing less.
In a world in which everything is subject to the passing of time, art alone is both subject to time and yet victorious over it.