Death destroys a man, but the idea of death saves him.

You confuse what's important with what's impressive.

The people I respect most behave as if they were immortal and as if society was eternal.

Without form, the sensitiveness vanishes.

Even a fellow with a camera has his favourite subjects, as we can see looking through the Kodak-albums of our friends. One amateur prefers the family group, another bathing scenes, another cows upon an alp, or kittens held upside down in the arms of a black-faced child. The tendency to choose one subject rather than another indicates the photographer's temperament. Nevertheless, his passion is for photography rather than for selection, a kitten will serve when no cows are available.

I think - I think - I think how little they think what lies so near them.

The traveller who has gone to Italy to study the tactile values of Giotto, or the corruption of the Papacy, may return remembering nothing but the blue sky and the men and women who live under it.