I am afraid he has one of those terribly weak natures that are susceptible to influence.
Ambition is the germ from which all growth of nobleness proceeds.
The fact is, the public make use of the classics of a country as a means of checking the progress of Art. They degrade the classics into authorities. They use them as bludgeons for preventing the free expression of Beauty in new forms.
Love is not fashionable anymore; the poets have killed it.
The Book of Life begins with a man and a woman in a garden. It ends with Revelations.
The moment you think you understand a great work of art, it's dead for you.