“A modern man registers a hundred times more sensory impressions than an eighteenth-century artist”

“Success is the sum of a lot of small things done correctly.”

“...a woman not yet seen, but whose perfume accumulates on the horizon like a storm cloud.”

“When a small night-lamp alone illuminated our love-making, it became a very small, circular room which silently passed through nights humming with stars.”

“The 'polymath' had already died out by the close of the eighteenth century, and in the following century intensive education replaced extensive, so that by the end of it the specialist had evolved. The consequence is that today everyone is a mere technician, even the artist...”

“Modern life changes no longer century by century, but year by year, ten times faster than it ever has before...”

“The modern artist is working with space and time and expressing his feelings rather than illustrating.”