The art of one period cannot be approached through the attitudes (emotional or intellectual) of another

Innocence of heart and violence of feeling are necessary in any kind of superior achievement: The arts cannot exist without them.

Innocence of heart and violence of feeling are necessary in any kind of superior achievement: The arts cannot exist without them.

I cannot believe that the inscrutable universe turns on an axis of suffering; surely the strange beauty of the world must somewhere rest on pure joy!

Your work is carved out of agony as a statue is carved out of marble.

Stupidity always accompanies evil. Or evil, stupidity.