Yesterday we obeyed kings and bent our necks before emperors. But today we kneel only to truth, follow only beauty, and obey only love.

Love is trembling happiness.

Is not the beautiful moon, that inspires poets, the same moon which angers the silence of the sea with a terrible roar?

If I accept the sunshine and warmth, then I must also accept the thunder and lightning.

Those who give you a serpent when you ask for a fish, may have nothing but serpents to give.

And God said, Love your enemy, & I obeyed Him & loved myself.

Art arises when the secret vision of the artist and the manifestation of nature agree to find new shapes.