艺术
The artist's mission is to awaken the soul.
Art is eternal, life is fleeting.
Love is not only a sentiment, it is an art.
Passion is universal humanity. Without it religion, history, romance and art would be useless.
The only real art is the art of the soul.
The artist is a child of his time, but woe to him if he is also its disciple, or even its favorite.
Without rules, there can be no true art.
Art should elevate the soul, not merely amuse the senses.
Nature is to be followed, but only when it is refined by art.
The rules of art are not arbitrary; they are founded in reason and in the nature of things.
The novel is the most democratic of art forms because it belongs to the reader as much as to the writer.
Literature is the art of giving form to the formless.
The novel is the art of making the private public, the personal universal.
Literature is the art of turning chaos into order, and then questioning that order.
The novel is the art of making the invisible visible.
Literature is the art of giving voice to the unspeakable.
The novel is the most democratic of art forms because it requires only a reader.
The novel is the art of the possible impossible.