Art compares to nature like wine to the grape.

The art of acting presupposes three phases: understanding a part, intuiting a part, and contemplating the essence of a part.

Let the famous not denounce fame. Far from being empty and meaningless, it fills those it touches with divine power.

Man will return to his origins. Goethe has finally become as squiggly as the city of his fathers.

When we interpret nature, we refer phenomena that are rarely entirely unintelligible back to something that actually exists, but is equally unintelligible.

Trying to conceal a crime is like burying a seed in the ground.

Genius differs from talent not by the amount of original thoughts, but by making the latter fertile and by positioning them properly, in other words, by integrating everything into a whole, whereas talent produces only fragments, no matter how beautiful.