“The essence of all beautiful art, all great art, is gratitude. ”

“Giving style” to one’s character - a great and rare art! It is exercised by those who see all the strengths and weaknesses of their own natures and then comprehend them in an artistic plan until everything appears as art and reason and even weakness delights the eye.”

“When the gratitude of many to one throws away all shame, we behold fame.”

“Art is the proper task of life. ”

“In truth, nothing could be more opposed to the purely aesthetic interpretation and justification of the world which are taught in this book than the Christian teaching, which is, and wants to be, only moral and which relegates art, every art, to the realm of lies; with its absolute standards, beginning with the truthfulness of God, it negates, judges, and damns art.”

“We have art in order not to die of the truth.”

“Art is essentially the affirmation, the blessing, and the deification of existence.”