Art is a severe business; most serious when employed in grand and sacred objects. The artist stands higher than art, higher than the object. He uses art for his purposes, and deals with the object after his own fashion.

What is not started today is never finished tomorrow.

We all of us live upon the past, and through the past we are destroyed.

Don't say that you want to give, but go ahead and give! You'll never catch up with a mere hope.

How can you come to know yourself? Never by thinking, always by doing. Try to do your duty, and you'll know right away what you amount to.

I had toward the poetic art a peculiar relation which was only practical after I had cherished in my mind for a long time a subject which possessed me, a model which inspired me, a predecessor who attracted me, until at length, after I had molded it

The loss of a much-prized treasure is only half felt when we have not regarded its tenure as secure.