“Be noble minded! Our own heart, and not other men's opinions of us, forms our true honor.”

“Our own heart, and not other men's opinions, forms our true honor.”

“We shall be free, just as our fathers were.”

“Every true genius is bound to be naive.”

“All powerful souls have kindred with each other.”

“Man, one may say, was never in such a completely animal condition; but he has, on the other hand, never escaped from it.”

“In the case of the creative mind, it seems to me, the intellect has withdrawn its watchers from the gates, and the ideas rush in pell-mell, and only then does it review and inspect the multitude. You worthy critics, or whatever you may call yourselves, are ashamed or afraid of the momentary and passing madness which is found in all real creators, the longer or shorter duration of which distinguishes the thinking artist from the dreamer. Hence your complaints of unfruitfulness, for you reject too soon and discriminate too severely.”