The guilty one is not he who commits the sin, but he who causes the darkness.

The aim of art is almost divine: to bring to life again if it is writing history, to create if it is writing poetry.

Dear God! how beauty varies in nature and art. In a woman the flesh must be like marble; in a statue the marble must be like flesh.

Word which the finger of God has written on the brow of every man — hope!

The need of the immaterial is the most deeply rooted of all needs. One must have bread; but before bread, one must have the ideal.

As a means of contrast with the sublime, the grotesque is, in our view, the richest source that nature can offer.

Joy's smile is much closer to tears than laughter.