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.

He neither serves nor rules, he transmits. His position is humble and the beauty at the crown is not his own. He is merely a channel.

Art makes something a lot more visible or audible.

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

I want to be as though new-born, knowing nothing, absolutely nothing about Europe.

I want to be as though newborn. To be almost primitive.

My hand has become the obedient instrument of a remote will.