Every form of life is in its origin not natural, but divine and human; for it must spring from love, just as there can be no reason without spirit.

An artist is he who has his center within himself. He who lacks this must choose a particular leader and mediator outside of himself, not forever, however, but only at first. For man cannot exist without a living center, and if he does not have it within himself, he may seek it only in a human being. Only a human being and his center can stimulate and awaken that of another.

The meanest authors have at least this similarity with the great author of heaven and earth, that they usually say after a completed day of work: "And behold, what he had done was good.

Reason is mechanical, wit chemical, and genius organic spirit.

An artist is he for whom the goal and center of life is to form his mind.

Philosophy still moves too much straight ahead, and is not yet cyclical enough.

One mentions many artists who are actually art works of nature.