Traditional Quotes and Symbols: God alone is truly beautiful, and all other beauty is by participation: it is only a work of art that has been created after an eternal model, that can be called beautiful.
Traditional Quotes and Symbols: Styles are the accident and by no means the essence of art; the free man is not trying to express himself, but that which was to be expressed.
Traditional Quotes and Symbols: The anonymity of the artist belongs to a type of culture dominated by the longing to be liberated from oneself. All the force of this philosophy is directed against the delusion “I am the doer”. Human individuality is not an aim but only a means.
Traditional Quotes and Symbols: In the last analysis the hero is always God, whose only idiosyncrasy is being, and to whom it would be absurd to attribute individual characteristics.
Traditional Quotes and Symbols: If we are disturbed by what we call the “vacancy” of a Buddha’s expression, we must know that he is thought of as the Eye in the world, the impassible spectator of things as they really are, and thus incompatible with features molded by human passion.
Traditional Quotes and Symbols: A thing is not only what it is for the senses, but also what it represents. Natural or artificial objects are not arbitrary symbols of a superior reality, but they are the effective manifestation of that reality.