“Art is the one thing man creates not out of need or luxury; therefore, it is the purest essence of his individuality.”

“The most glorious works of art, the ones that bring the purest joy – perhaps they need not be touched or known, but seen only with the heart.”

“Art and morality are, with certain provisos…one. Their essence is the same. The essence of both of them is love. Love is the perception of individuals. Love is the extremely difficult realization that something other than oneself is real. Love, and so art and morals, is the discovery of reality. ”

“In God's world the individual counts. Therefore, Christian art should deal with the individual.”

“Why, my man is created from the outside, that is, he is inauthentic in essence- he is always not-himself, because he is determined by form, which is born between people. His "I", therefore, is marked for him in that "interhumanity." An eternal actor, but a natural one, because his artificiality is inborn, it makes up a feature of his humanity-to be a man means to be an actor-to be a man means to pretend to be a man-to be a man means to "act like" a man while not being one deep inside-to be a man is to recite humanity.”

“A good book is the purest essence of a human soul.”