If it were conceivable that in obeying God one should bring about one's own damnation whilst in disobeying him one could be saved, I should still choose the way of obedience.

Art has no immediate future, because all art is collective and there is no more collective life.

Our science is like a store filled with the most subtle intellectual devices for solving the most complex problems, and yet we are almost incapable of applying the elementary principles of rational thought.

Art is the symbol of the two noblest human efforts: to construct and to refrain from destruction.

We can only know one thing about God - that he is what we are not. Our wretchedness alone is an image of this. The more we contemplate it, the more we contemplate him.

We are like plants which have the one choice of being in or out of the light.

Beauty is a fruit which we look at without trying to seize it.