Art is constitutive-the artist determines beauty. He does not take it over.

Poor fool! in whose petty estimation all things are little.

But the valid issue is the extent to which man knows how to form and master the material at his command.

He is a man whom it is impossible to please, because he is never pleased with himself.

No one as ever completed their apprenticeship.

Die Mathematiker sind eine Art Franzosen. Spricht man zu ihnen, so übersetzen sie alles in ihre eigene Sprache, und so wird es alsobald etwas ganz anderes. Mathematicians are a kind of Frenchmen. Whenever you say anything or talk to them, they translate it into their own language, and right away it is something completely different.

Doesn't surprise me that Christ our Lord preferred to live with whores and sinners, seeing I go in for that myself.