Great passions are incurable diseases.
Every person above the ordinary has a certain mission that they are called to fulfill.
To make something you have to be something.
Mystery is truth's dancing partner.
When translating one must proceed up to the intranslatable; only then one becomes aware of the foreign nation and the foreign tongue.
Art is a severe business; most serious when employed in grand and sacred objects. The artist stands higher than art, higher than the object. He uses art for his purposes, and deals with the object after his own fashion.