Man can find no better retreat from the world than art, and man can find no stronger link with the world than art.

It seems to never occur to fools that merit and good fortune are closely united.

People are always talking about originality, but what do they mean? As soon as we are born, the world begins to work upon us, and this goes on to the end.

The public wishes itself to be managed like a woman; one must say nothing to it except what it likes to hear.

A lot of people do not care about your money until nearly penniless. They also do so with time

A good man, through obscurest aspirations Has still an instinct of the one true way.

By the artist's seizing any one object from nature, that object no longer is part of nature. One can go so far as to say that theartist creates the object in that very moment by emphasizing its significant, characteristic, and interesting aspects or, rather, by adding the higher values.