That we understand something perfectly, that we accomplish something better than anyone else around us, that is what matters.

Never let a day pass without looking at some perfect work of art, hearing some great piece of music and reading, in part, some great book.

A vain man can never be utterly ruthless: he wants to win applause and therefore he accommodates himself to others

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

No prudent antagonist thinks light of his adversaries.

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

True works of art contain their own theory and give us the measurement according to which we should judge them.