You worthy critics, or whatever you may call yourselves, are ashamed or afraid of the momentary and passing madness which is found in all real creators, the longer or shorter duration of which distinguishes the thinking artist from the dreamer. Hence your complaints of unfruitfulness, for you reject too soon and discriminate too severely.

Power is the most persuasive rhetoric.

The jest loses its point when he who makes it is the first to laugh.

Votes should be weighed not counted.

The very plants turn with a joyful transport to the light.

Love guides the stars towards each other, the world plan endures only through love.

Nothing, it is true, is more common than for both Science and Art to pay homage to the spirit of the age, and for creative taste to accept the law of critical taste.