There is nothing insignificant in the world. It all depends on how one looks at it.

Music is liquid architecture; Architecture is frozen music.

Woe to him who would ascribe something like reason to Chance, and make a religion of surrendering to it.

Truth is contrary to our nature, not so error, and this for a very simple reason: truth demands that we should recognize ourselves as limited, error flatters us that, in one way or another, we are unlimited.

Beauty is at once the ultimate principle and the highest aim of art.

It is better to do the smallest thing in the world than to hold half an hour to be too small a thing.

The world only goes forward because of those who oppose it.