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

Care is taken that trees do not grow into the sky.

Hypotheses are only the pieces of scaffolding which are erected round a building during the course of construction, and which are taken away as soon as the edifice is completed.

Once you have missed the first buttonhole, you'll never manage to button up.

Time does not relinquish its rights, either over human beings or over mountains.

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.

Waste not a day in vain digression; with resolute, courageous trust seek every possible impression and make it firmly your posession you'll then work on because you must.