The crown of literature is poetry.

It is bad enough to know the past; it would be intolerable to know the future.

Art should be appreciated with passion and violence, not with a tepid, depreciating elegance that fears the censoriousness of a common room.

We find things beautiful because we recognize them and contrariwise we find things beautiful because their novelty surprises us.

The Almighty can hardly be such a fool as the churches make out.

You tend to close your eyes to truth, beauty and goodness because they give no scope to your sense of the ridiculous.

The artist produces for the liberation of his soul.