"Treat a work of art like a..." - Quote by Arthur Schopenhauer

“Life is short and truth works far and lives long: let us speak the truth.”

“A poet or philosopher should have no fault to find with his age if it only permits him to do his work undisturbed in his own corner; nor with his fate if the corner granted him allows of his following his vocation without having to think about other people.”

“Truth that is naked is the most beautiful, and the simpler its expression the deeper is the impression it makes; this is partly because it gets unobstructed hold of the hearer’s mind without his being distracted by secondary thoughts, and partly because he feels that here he is not being corrupted or deceived by the arts of rhetoric, but that the whole effect is got from the thing itself.”

“And, because my role in society - or any artist or poet's role - is to try to express what we all feel. Not to tell people how to feel, not as a preacher, not as a leader, but as a reflection of us all. And it's like that's the job of the artist in society, not to...they're not some alienated being living on the outskirts of town. It's fine to live on the outskirts of town, but artists must reflect what we all are. … If that's taken it too much on meself, I feel that artists are that - they're reflections of society... Mirrors.”

“The little bit (two inches wide) of ivory on which I work with so fine a brush as produces little effect after much labour.”

“In art, anything goes, and if it goes, it goes.”

“The snow, the wind, the sun and the sounds of nature, can all be reminders to you that you're an integral part of the natural world.”

“Nothing should be valued higher than the value of the day.”

“By appreciation, we make excellence in others our own property.”