The mystic too full of God to speak intelligibly to the world.

He knew that the whole mystery of beauty can never be comprehended by the crowd, and that while clearness is a virtue of style, perfect explicitness is not a necessary virtue.

A place has almost the shyness of a person, with strangers; and its secret is not to be surprised by a too direct interrogation.

Night, a more perfect day.

I had my dreams of Venice, but nothing that I had dreamed was as impossible as what I found.

Art begins when a man wishes to immortalize the most vivid moment he has ever lived.

But we have been taught to see before our eyes have found out a way of seeing for themselves.