We live in this world like a child who enters a room where a clever person is speaking. The child did not hear the beginning of the speech, and he leaves before the end; and there are certain things which he hears but does not understand

In spite the mountains of books written about art, no precise definition of art has been constructed. And the reason for this is that the conception of art has been based on the conception of beauty.

Great works of art are only great because they are accessible and comprehensible to everyone.

Every heart has its own skeletons.

Truth, like gold, is to be obtained not by its growth, but by washing away from it all that is not gold.

The kinder and the more thoughtful a person is, the more kindness he can find in other people.

I say that the God who created the world in six days and who sent His son, and also his son himself, are not God, but that God is the one existing, incomparable good, the beginning of everything.