The most perfect ape cannot draw an ape; only man can do that; but, likewise, only man regards the ability to do this as a sign of superiority.

One cannot demand of a scholar that he show himself a scholar everywhere in society, but the whole tenor of his behavior must none the less betray the thinker,…

It is a question whether, when we break a murderer on the wheel, we do not fall into the error a child makes when it hits the chair it has bumped into.

Delight at having understood a very abstract and obscure system leads most people to believe in the truth of what it demonstrates.

Writing...is an art; and artists...are human beings. As a human being stands, so a human being is....

Painting is an art, and the art in its whole is not a vain objets creation which get lost in the void, but a power which has a goal and must serve to the evolu…

Art is a fruit that grows in man.