Science and art, or by the same token, poetry and prose differ from one another like a journey and an excursion. The purpose of the journey is its goal, the purpose of an excursion is the process.

In Germany, a certain artistic sense is fairly common, but the artist's sense is foreign there.

Art compares to nature like wine to the grape.

In the arts, foolhardiness is always harmful; even worse, however, is clumsiness.

The art of acting presupposes three phases: understanding a part, intuiting a part, and contemplating the essence of a part.