Conscience makes egotists of us all.
No work of art ever puts forward views. Views belong to people who are not artists.
Men as a rule love with their eyes, woman with their ears.
No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did, he would cease to be an artist.
The simplicity of your character makes you exquisitely incomprehensible to me.
Those who find beautiful meanings in beautiful things are the cultivated. For these there is hope. They are the elect to whom beautiful things mean only beauty.