One can bear anything of which one is able to conceive.

The fairytale is irresponsible; it is frankly imaginary, and its purpose is to gratify wishes, as a dream doth flatter.

... the image of feeling created by artists, in every kind of art -- plastic, musical, poetic, balletic -- serves to hold the reality itself for our labile and volatile memory, as a touchstone to test the scope of our intellectual constructions.

Fire is a natural symbol of life and passion, though it is the one element in which nothing can actually live.

value exists only where there is consciousness. Where nothing ever is felt, nothing matters.

Most new discoveries are suddenly-seen things that were always there. A new idea is a light that illuminates presences which simply had no form before the light fell on them.

The function of art is to acquaint the beholder with something he has not known before.