The only absolutely and unapproachably heroic element in the soldier's work seems to be-that he is paid little for it-and regularly.

Everything that you can see in the world around you presents itself to your eyes only as an arrangement of patches of different colors.

The plea of ignorance will never take away our responsibilities.

Nothing can be true which is either complete or vacant; every touch is false which does not suggest more than it represents, and every space is false which represents nothing.

It is only by labour that thought can be made healthy, and only by thought that labour can be made happy, and the two cannot be separated with impunity.

Mountains are to the rest of the body of the earth, what violent muscular action is to the body of man. The muscles and tendons of its anatomy are, in the mountain, brought out with force and convulsive energy, full of expression, passion, and strength.

Art is not a study of positive reality, it is the seeking for ideal truth.