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.

Many young painters would never have taken their pencils in hand if they could have felt, known, and understood, early enough, what really produced a master like Raphael.

While man's desires and aspirations stir he cannot choose but err.

Theories are usually the over-hasty efforts of an impatient understanding that would gladly be rid of phenomena, and so puts in their place pictures, notions, nay, often mere words.

The effects of good music are not just because it's new; on the contrary music strikes us more the more familiar we are with it.

I will be lord over myself.

Let your trouble be Light will follow dark Though the heaven falls You may hear the lark.