Painting is the intermediate somewhat between a thought and a thing.

The man's desire is for the woman; but the woman's desire is rarely other than for the desire of the man.

Poetry is certainly something more than good sense, but it must be good sense at all events; just as a palace is more than a house, but it must be a house, at …

The Reformation in the sixteenth century narrowed Reform. As soon as men began to call themselves names, all hope of further amendment was lost.

The vision of the artist or the poet is the intermediate determinant between the subject (the person) and the objective pole (the world-waiting-to-be). It will…

I seek a form that my style cannot discover, a bud of thought that wants to be a rose.

A painter paints the appearance of things, not their objective correctness, in fact he creates new appearances of things.