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Beauty is no dead thing. It is the manifestation of God in nature. There is not one object in nature untouched by man that is not beautiful, for God's manifestation is beauty. It shines through all His works, and not only in those that may give pleasure to man.
An artist, under pain of oblivion, must have confidence in himself, and listen only to his real master: Nature.
Only one who devotes himself to a cause with his whole strength and soul can be a true master. For this reason mastery demands all of a person.
There is no pleasure to me without communication: there is not so much as a sprightly thought comes into my mind that it does not grieve me to have produced alone, and that I have no one to tell it to.
I was a crazy young man who let himself be blinded by his passions and obeyed only the impulses of the moment.
Extremes in nature equal ends produce; In man they join to some mysterious use.
The moment a person forms a theory, his imagination sees in every object only the traits which favor that theory.
Nowhere more truly than in his mental capacities is man a part of nature.
I don't have a grand master plan, but I try to be thoughtful when I can and also silly. It's part of the fun.
