The idea of beauty is the fundamental idea of everything. In the world we see only distortions of the fundamental idea, but art, by imagination, may lift itself to the height of this idea. Art is therefore akin to creation.

Seize the moment of happiness... love and be loved.

Men need only trust in Christ's teaching and obey it, and there will be peace on earth.

Art lifts man from his personal life into the universal life.

And so he who looks down at his feet will not know the truth, but he who discerns by the sun which way to go.

Just as a painter needs light in order to put the finishing touches to his picture, so I need an inner light, which I feel I never have enough of in the autumn.

Every heart has its own skeletons.