What a torment it is to see so much loveliness passing and repassing before us, and yet not dare to lay hold of it!

In nature we never see anything isolated, but everything in connection with something else which is before it, beside it, under it and over it.

To make converts is the natural ambition of everyone.

Beware of dissipating your powers; strive constantly to concentrate them.

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.

Everything is simpler than you think and at the same time more complex than you imagine

Mankind? That is an abstraction. There have always been and always will be only individuals.