"Learn to... be what you are, and learn to resign with a good grace all that you are not."

"The man who has no inner-life is a slave to his surroundings."

"An error is the more dangerous in proportion to the degree of truth which it contains."

"Destiny has two ways of crushing us - by refusing our wishes and by fulfilling them."

"Artschwager's art always involves looking closely at surfaces, questions what an object is, wants to make you forget the name of the thing you're looking at so that it might mushroom in your mind into something that triggers unexpected infinities."

"When power leads man toward arrogance, poetry reminds him of his limitations. When power narrows the area of man's concern, poetry reminds him of the richness and diversity of existence. When power corrupts, poetry cleanses."

"Life is the power that's greater than I can ever comprehend. The way life runs through everything, even the tiniest elements of nature - that makes me humble."

"I was bold in the pursuit of knowledge, never fearing to follow truth and reason to whatever results they led, and bearding every authority which stood in their way."