“Respect is that great spirit of good, which creates the beautiful space giving all souls the simple room to breathe.”
“What art offers is space – a certain breathing room for the spirit.”
“Strong and rare natures are thus created; misery, almost always a stepmother, is sometimes a mother; privation gives birth to power of soul and mind; distress is the nurse of self-respect; misfortune is a good breast for great souls.”
“All simple souls must admire and respect one another, saying: 'Let us proceed each one along our path to the same goal, united in purpose and by means of God's order which, in its great variety, is in us all.”
“There needs not a great soul to make a hero; there needs a god-created soul which will be true to its origin; that will be a great soul!”
“You shall create beauty not to excite the sensesbut to give sustenance to the soul. ”