The human mind is not rich enough to drive many horses abreast and wants one general scheme, under which it strives to bring everything.

Fanaticism consists of redoubling your effort when you have forgotten your aim.

To feel beauty is a better thing than to understand how we come to feel it. To have imagination and taste, to love the best, to be carried by the contemplation of nature to a vivid faith in the ideal, all this is more, a great deal more, than any science can hope to be.

Saints cannot arise where there have been no warriors, nor philosophers where a prying beast does not remain hidden in the depths.

The world is so ordered that we must, in a material sense, lose everything we have and love, one thing after another, until we ourselves close our eyes.

The sophisticated concern about art sinks before a spontaneous love of reality, and I thank the photograph for being so transparent a vehicle for things.

Language is like money, without which specific relative values may well exist and be felt, but cannot be reduced to a common denominator.