Action is limited and relative. Unlimited and absolute is the vision of him who sits at ease and watches, who walks in loneliness and dreams.
For the canons of good society are, or should be, the same as the canons of art. Form is absolutely essential to it.
memory, like a horrible malady, was eating his soul away
Conscience makes egotists of us all.
Now art should never try to be popular. The public should try to make itself artistic.
Faithfulness is to the emotional life what consistency is to the life of the intellect - simply a confession of failures.