Art is not a handicraft, it is the transmission of feeling the artist has experienced.

Children and lunatics cut the Gordian knot which the poet spends his life patiently trying to untie.

All art constantly aspires towards the condition of music.

The debt we owe to the play of imagination is incalculable.

To imagine is everything, to know is nothing at all.

A book is a companion that never flatters you, a friend that never turns from you, and a comrade that never tires of you.

Art for art's sake is a philosophy of the well-fed.

Life is very nice, but it lacks form. It's the aim of art to give it some.

Science and art, or by the same token, poetry and prose differ from one another like a journey and an excursion. The purpose of the journey is its goal, the purpose of an excursion is the process.

The moment you cheat for the sake of beauty, you know you're an artist.