The more realistic you are the more you threaten the grounds of your own art.

I am a true adorer of life, and if I can't reach as high as the face of it, I plant my kiss somewhere lower down. Those who understand will require no further explanation.

One must bear in mind the odd angle or slant that the rays of love have to take in order to reach a heart like mine.

(Socrates) said there were only two possibilities. Either the soul is immortal or, after death, things would be again as blank as they were before we were born.

People can lose their lives in libraries. They ought to be warned.

Art attempts to find in the universe, in matter as well as in the facts of life, what is fundamental, enduring, essential.

... an era of turmoil and ideological confusion, the principal phenomenon of the present age.