The vision of Christ that thou dost see Is my vision's greatest enemy.
Sooner strangle an infant in its cradle than nurse unacted desires.
As we are, so we see.
The difference between a bad artist and a good one is: the bad artist seems to copy a great deal; the good one really does.
The world of imagination is the world of eternity. It is the divine bosom into which we shall all go after death of the vegetative body.
I must create a system or be enslaved by another mans; I will not reason and compare: my business is to create.