“Pestsov maintained that art is one, and that it can attai its highest mainfestation only in conjunction with all kinds of art.”

“Art should cause violence to be set aside and it is only art that can accomplish this.”

“To say that a work of art is good, but incomprehensible to the majority of men, is the same as saying of some kind of food that it is very good but that most people can’t eat it.”

“Only by taking infinitesimally small units for observation (the differential of history, that is, the individual tendencies of men) and attaining to the art of integrating them (that is, finding the sum of these infinitesimals) can we hope to arrive at the laws of history.”

“We can know only that we know nothing. And that is the highest degree of human wisdom.”

“Alle glücklichen Familien gleichen einander. Jede unglückliche Familie ist auf ihre eigene Art unglücklich.”

“Art is not a handicraft; it is the transmission of feeling the artist has experienced.”