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I work very much on the principle that anything created by mankind has mischief and error hardwired into its inception.

Hidden nature is secret God.

The creative processes are so mysterious.

In the discovery of secret things and in the investigation of hidden causes, stronger reasons are obtained from sure experiments and demonstrated arguments than from probable conjectures and the opinions of philosophical speculators of the common sort.

To me there is nothing that goes against nature. If it seems incomprehensible, it's only because we haven't been able to understand it yet.

Doubtless there are things in nature which have not yet been seen. If an artist discovers them, he opens the way for his successors.

Every branch of human knowledge, if traced up to its source and final principles, vanishes into mystery.

Everything in Nature contains all the powers of Nature. Everything is made of one hidden stuff.

Those who look for the laws of Nature as a support for their new works collaborate with the creator.

In the end, nature is inexorable: it has no reason to hurry and, sooner or later, it takes what belongs to it. Unconsciously and inflexibly obedient to its own laws, it doesn't know art, just as it doesn't know freedom, just as it doesn't know goodness.