The universal subjugator, the commonplace.

Every individual who is not creative has a negative, narrow, exclusive taste and succeeds in depriving creative being of its energy and life.

I wish the stage were as narrow as the wire of a tighrope dancer so that no incompetent would dare step upon it.

I have found among my papers a sheet . . . in which I call architecture frozen music.

Self knowledge is best learned not by contemplation, but by action.

I have so much in me, and the feeling for her absorbs it all; I have so much, and without her it all comes to nothing.

Man must strive, and striving he must err.