It is working within limits that the craftsman reveals himself.

Neither a work of nature nor one of art we get to know when they have been finished; we must surprise them in the process of beingcreated so as to understand them to some degree.

There are few who have at once thought and capacity for action. Thought expands, but lames; action animates, but narrows.

It would be a lowly art that allowed itself to be understood all at once.

Art is based on a strong sentiment of religion,--on a profound and mighty earnestness; hence it is so prone to co-operate with religion.

By nature we have no defect that could not become a strength, no strength that could not become a defect.

What must the English and French think of the language of our philosophers when we Germans do not understand it ourselves?