As all Art depends on Vision, so the different kinds of Art depend on the different ways in which minds look at things.

Good writers are of necessity rare.

Philosophy and Art both render the invisible visible by imagination.

There are many justifications of silence; there can be none of insincerity.

Genius is rarely able to give any account of its own processes.

Originality is independence, not rebellion; it is sincerity, not antagonism.

In complex trains of thought signs are indispensable.