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The work of art may have a moral effect, but to demand moral purpose from the artist is to make him ruin his work.
The little that is completed, vanishes from the sight of one who looks forward to what is still to do.
A man should hear a little music, read a little poetry, and see a fine picture every day of his life, in order that worldly cares may not obliterate the sense of the beautiful which God has implanted in the human soul.
The soul that sees beauty may sometimes walk alone.
The ideal of beauty is simplicity and tranquility.
He who has art and science also has religion, but those who do not have them better have religion.
Since I have heard often enough that everyone in the end has his own religion, nothing seemed more natural to me than to fashion my own.
The greatest act of faith takes place when a man finally decides that he is not God.
Everything is hard before it is easy.
For the nature of women is closely allied to art
What we do not understand we do not possess.
The person born with a talent they are meant to use will find their greatest happiness in using it.
Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do.
Death is a commingling of eternity with time; in the death of a good man, eternity is seen looking through time.
The right man is the one who seizes the moment.
If you call a thing bad you do little, if you call a thing good you do much
Art will always be art.
Patriotism ruins history.
We see only what we know.
Writing is busy idleness.
Time itself is an element.
There is no patriotic art.
Do not hurry; do not rest.
I will be lord over myself.
Doubt grows with knowledge.
With knowledge grows doubt.
To a valet no man is a hero.
Collectors are happy people.
I am the Spirit that denies.
Every beginning is cheerful.
Patriotism corrupts history.
On all the peaks lies peace.
Beware of a man of one book.
Create, artist, do not talk.
Only law can give us freedom.
Stupidity is without anxiety.
A joy shared is a joy doubled.
Blood is a very special juice.
The little man is still a man.
Wisdom is only found in truth.
Wisdom is found only in truth.
All our knowledge is symbolic.
Let there be truth between us.
We are our own aptest deceiver.
Precaution is better than cure.
Gray is the color of all theory
All things are only transitory.
Man errs as long as he strives.
Duty is the demand of the hour.
What is fruitful alone is true.
