Our salvation lies not in knowing, but in creating!

Art depends upon the inexactitude of sight.

Everyone nowadays lives through too much and thinks through too little: they have a ravenous appetite and colic at the same time so that they keep getting thinner and thinner no matter how much they eat.--Whoever says nowadays, "I have not experienced anything"--is a simpleton.

Oh great star! What would your happiness be if you did not have us to shine for?

Whoever no longer finds greatness in God no longer finds it anywhere--he must either deny it or create it.

In intercourse with scholars and artists one readily makes mistakes of opposite kinds: in a remarkable scholar one not infrequently finds a mediocre man; and often, even in a mediocre artist, one finds a very remarkable man.

It is only those who know how to feel that "this is not good" who devise improvements.