If I accept you as you are, I will make you worse; however, if I treat you as though you are what you are capable of becoming, I help you become that.

The best genius is that which absorbs and assimilates everything without doing the least violence to its fundamental destiny.

There is no surer method of evading the world than by following Art, and no surer method of linking oneself to it than by Art.

All lyrical work must, as a whole, be perfectly intelligible, but in some particulars a little unintelligible.

On the pinnacle of success man does not stand firm long.

The man of understanding finds everything laughable.

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