Behind a remarkable scholar one finds，not infrequently，a mediocre man，and behind a mediocre artist quite often a very remarkable man.
—Nietzsche
在一个卓越的学者身上我们常常看到平庸人的形象，一个平庸的艺术家常常是一个卓越的人物。
——尼采
Art is a higher type of knowledge than experience.
—Aristotle
艺术是比经验更高形态的知识。
——亚里士多德
Art may be called complete and perfect when it seems to be nature.
—Longinus
艺术接近自然时，就称得上是圆满完美的艺术了。
——龙基纳
Art is the right hand of nature.The latter has only given us being；the former has made us men.
—Schiller
艺术是自然的好助手。后者仅给我们生存，前者使我们做人。
——席勒
