Art

The agitator seizes the world. The artist is seized by it

A writer is someone who can make a riddle out of an answer

Museums are the cemeteries of the arts

Never trust the artist. Trust the tale

The most accomplished monkey cannot draw a monkey, this only man can do; just as it is also only man who regards his ability to do this as a distinct merit

As to the pure mind all things are pure, so to the poetic mind all things are poetical

Nature is a revelation of God; art is a revelation of man

Literature is an investment of genius which has dividends to all subsequent times

We work in the dark - we do what we can - we give what we have. Our doubt is our passion and our passion is our task. The rest is the madness of art.

It is art that makes life, makes interest, makes importance... and I know of no substitute whatever for the force and beauty of its process

In museums and palaces we are alternate radicals and conservatives.

I hold any writer sufficiently justified who is himself in love with his theme.