Character is built out of circumstances. From exactly the same materials, one man builds palaces, while another builds hovels.

Every one who has seriously investigated a novel question, who has really interrogated Nature with a view to a distinct answer, will bear me out in saying that it requires intense and sustained effort of imagination.

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.

The artist is called a creator.

Language, after all, is only the use of symbols, and Art also can only affect us through symbols.

In complex trains of thought signs are indispensable.