Who said “Art is the symbol of the two noblest human efforts: to construct and to refrain from…”?

“Art is science made clear.”

“Every artist was first an amateur.”

“No man but a blockhead ever wrote, except for money.”

“Pictures deface walls oftener than they decorate them.”

“I don't want life to imitate art. I want life to be art.”

“A self-respecting nation is ready for anything, including war, except for a renunciation of its option to make war.”

“We can know only one thing about God — that he is what we are not. Our wretchedness alone is an image of this. The more we contemplate it, the more we contemplate him.”

“If Germany, thanks to Hitler and his successors, were to enslave the European nations and destroy most of the treasures of their past, future historians would certainly pronounce that she had civilized Europe.”

“At the bottom of the heart of every human being, from earliest infancy until the tomb, there is something that goes on indomitably expecting, in the teeth of all experience of crimes committed, suffered, and witnessed, that good and not evil will be done”

“The afflicted are not listened to. They are like someone whose tongue has been cut out and who occasionally forgets the fact. When they move their lips no ear perceives any sound. And they themselves soon sink into impotence in the use of language, because of the certainty of not being heard.”

“I can, therefore I am.”