Art is a step from what is obvious and well-known toward what is arcane and concealed.
I wash my hands of those who imagine chattering to be knowledge, silence to be ignorance, and affection to be art.
Your living is determined not so much by what life brings to you as by the attitude you bring to life not so much by what happens to you as by the way your mind looks at what happens.
Of life's two chief prizes, beauty and truth, I found the first in a loving heart and the second in a laborer's hand.
Yesterday we obeyed kings and bent our necks before emperors. But today we kneel only to truth, follow only beauty, and obey only love.
Death most resembles a prophet who is without honor in his own land or a poet who is a stranger among his people.
I prefer to be a dreamer among the humblest, with visions to be realized, than lord among those without dreams and desires.
Faith is an oasis in the heart which will never be reached by the caravan of thinking.
Advance, and never halt, for advancing is perfection. Advance and do not fear the thorns in the path, for they draw only corrupt blood.
The person you consider ignorant and insignificant is the one who came from God, that he might learn bliss from grief and knowledge from gloom.
Advance, and never halt, for advancing is perfection. Advance and do not fear the thorns in the path, for they draw only corrupt blood.
Wisdom stands at the turn in the road and calls upon us publicly, but we consider it false and despise its adherents.
No man can reveal to you nothing but that which already lies half-asleep in the dawning of your knowledge.
I prefer to be a dreamer among the humblest, with visions to be realized, than lord among those without dreams and desires.
Art is a step from what is obvious and well-known toward what is arcane and concealed.
If you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work.
But let there be spaces in your togetherness and let the winds of the heavens dance between you. Love one another but make not a bond of love: let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls.