I wonder whether art has a higher function than to make me feel, appreciate, and enjoy natural objects for their art value?

Not what man knows but what man feels, concerns art. All else is science.

A complete life may be one ending in so full an identification with the oneself that there is no self left to die.

The ultimate justification of the work of art is to help the spectator to become a work of art himself.

International affairs will be placed on a better footing when it is understood that there is no way of punishing a people for the crimes of its rulers.

I never felt that there was anything enviable in youth. I cannot recall that any of us, as youths, admired our condition to excess or had a desire to prolong it.

Life has taught me that it is not for our faults that we are disliked and even hated, but for our qualities.