Idea and experience will never coincide in the center; only through art and action are they united.

The soul that sees beauty may sometimes walk alone.

I will listen to anyone's convictions, but pray keep your doubts to yourself.

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

I had toward the poetic art a peculiar relation which was only practical after I had cherished in my mind for a long time a subject which possessed me, a model which inspired me, a predecessor who attracted me, until at length, after I had molded it

Mozart is a human incarnation of the divine force of creation.

As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.