A line is a dot that went for a walk.

Children also have artistic ability, and there is wisdom in there having it! The more helpless they are, the more instructive are the examples they furnish us; and they must be preserved free of corruption from an early age.

For the understanding of a picture a chair is needed. Why a chair? To prevent the legs, as they tire, from interfering with the mind

To emphasize only the beautiful seems to me to be like a mathematical system that only concerns itself with positive numbers.

Beauty is as relative as light and dark. Thus, there exists no beautiful woman, none at all, because you are never certain that a still far more beautiful woman will not appear and completely shame the supposed beauty of the first.

Becoming is superior to being.

Everything vanishes round me and good works rise from me of their own accord.