The biggest problem with every art is by the use of appearance to create a loftier reality.

We are shaped and fashioned by what we love

The traveler was active; he went strenuously in search of people, of adventure, of experience. The tourist is passive.

People should talk less and draw more. Personally, I would like to renounce speech altogether and, like organic nature, communicate everything I have to say visually.

We should know mankind better if we were not so anxious to resemble one another.

Those who hope for no other life are dead even for this.

The best genius is that which absorbs and assimilates everything without doing the least violence to its fundamental destiny.