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

When ideas become gods, consciousness of harmony becomes devotion, humility, and hope.

Every complete man has his genius. True virtue is genius.

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

You wanted to destroy philosophy and poetry in order to make room for religion and morality which you misunderstood: but you wereable to destroy only yourself.

Nothing is more piquant than when a man of genius possesses mannerisms; not so when they possess him -- this leads to spiritual petrification.

Original love never appears in pure form, but in manifold veils and shapes, such as confidence, humility, reverence, serenity, asfaithfulness and modesty, as gratefulness; but primarily as longing and wistful melancholy.