Creative work carries with it a form of intense love.

I have done my best. That is about all the philosophy of living one needs.

The most bewildering thing about man is his idea of work and the amount of work he imposes upon himself, or civilization has imposed upon him. All nature loafs, while man alone works for a living.

Nothing matters to a man who says nothing matters.

In contrast to logic, there is common sense, or still better, the Spirit of Reasonableness.

The history omankind seems like kite flying; sometimes, when the wind is favorable, we let go the string a little and the kite soars a little higher; sometimes the wind is too rough and we have to lower it a little, and sometimes it gets caught among the tree branches; but to reach the upper strata of pure bliss-ah, perhaps never.

Art is both creation and recreation. Of the two ideas, I think art as recreation or as sheer play of the human spirit is more important.