Behind a remarkable scholar one finds，not infrequently，a mediocre man，and behind a mediocre artist quite often a very remarkable man.
—Nietzsche
在一个杰出的学者背后，往往是一个平庸的人，而在一个平庸的艺术家的背后，往往是一个非常杰出的人。
——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
艺术是自然的得力助手。后者仅赋予我们生命，但前者却丰富了我们的人生。
——席勒
