I want to know whether you are a person devoted to creating or to exchanging in some respect or other: as a creator you belong tothe free, as an exchanger you are their slave and instrument.

No one can construct for you the bridge upon which precisely you must cross the stream of life, no one but you yourself alone.

A sedentary life is the real sin against the Holy Spirit. Only those thoughts that come by walking have any value.

The form of a work of art, which gives speech to their thoughts and is, therefore, their mode of talking, is always somewhat uncertain, like all kinds of speech.

The good four. Honest with ourselves and with whatever is friend to us; courageous toward the enemy; generous toward the vanquished; polite-always that is how the four cardinal virtues want us.

Art raises its head where creeds relax.

I have not the capability to give you my loyalty, nor do I have the vanity to appear as if I did.