What we have to do is to be forever curiously testing new opinions and courting new impressions.

To burn always with this hard gemlike flame, to maintain this ecstasy, is success in life.

Not the fruit of experience but experience itself, is the end.

For art comes to you proposing frankly to give nothing but the highest quality to your moments as they pass, and simply for those moments' sake.

To regard all things and principles of things as inconstant modes or fashions has more and more become the tendency of modern thought.

And the fifteenth century was an impassioned age, so ardent and serious in its pursuit of art that it consecrated everything with which art had to ad as a religious object.