Even when we look at nature, our imagination constructs the picture.
I live in company with a body, a silent companion, exacting and eternal.
Do not be troubled for a language, cultivate your soul and she will show herself.
Real beauty in the arts is eternal and would be accepted at all periods; but it wears the dress of its century: something of that dress clings to it, and woe to the works which appear in periods when the general taste is corrupted.
The secret of not having worries, for me at least, is to have ideas.
Talent does whatever it wants to do. Genius does only what it can.