Every solution of a problem is a new problem.

To live as one likes is plebian the noble man aspires to order and law.

One alone does not help, but rather he who unites with many at the right moment.

Keep not standing fixed and rooted. Briskly venture, briskly roam.

As for what I have done as a poet, I take no pride in whatever. Excellent poets have lived at the same time with me, poets more excellent lived before me, and others will come after me. But that in my country I am the only person who knows the truth in the difficult science of colors-of that, I say, I am not a little proud, and here have a consciousness of superiority to many.

In nature we never see anything isolated, but everything in connection with something else which is before it, beside it, under it and over it.

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