Only the heart without a stain knows ease.

No skill or art is needed to grow old; the trick is to endure it.

One should not search for anything behind the phenomena. They themselves are the message.

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.

A man does not mind being blamed for his faults, and being punished for them, and he patiently suffers much for them; but he becomes impatient if he is required to give them up.

One ought, everyday, to hear a song, read a fine poem, and, if possible, to speak a few reasonable words.

If there is confusion in your head and in your heart, what more do you want! A man who no longer loves and no longer errs should have himself buried straight away.