We talk too much. We should talk less and draw more.

Help me to discover Thy truth, O Lord, and preserve me from those who have already found it

Pain and pleasure, good and evil, come to us from unexpected sources. It is not there where we have gathered up our brightest hopes, that the dawn of happiness breaks. It is not there where we have glanced our eye with affright, that we find the deadliest gloom. What should this teach us? To bow to the great and only Source of light, and live humbly and with confiding resignation.

The hardest thing to see is what is in front of your eyes.

Our hands we open of our own free will, and the good flies, which we can never recall.

The arts are the salt of the earth; as salt relates to food, the arts relate to technology.

Even though the world as a whole progresses, youth must always start again from the beginning, and as individuals go through the epochs of the world's culture.