“The eye of the intellect "sees in all objects what it brought with it the means of seeing."”

“Nature 's above art in that respect.”

“Man, the living creature, the creating individual, is always more important than any established style or system.”

“All art is immoral.”

“To contemplate a thing implies maintaining oneself OUTSIDE it, resolved to keep a distance between it and ourselves.”

“Great moral teachers of humanity were, in a certain sense, geniuses in the art of living more than…”