Looking at Pictures Quotes

“For hours and days he sought out ways to make unintelligible the obvious, and to find for things easily understood an inexplicable basis.

--Thoughts on Cezanne”
― Robert Walser, Looking at Pictures

“He doesn’t see his path clearly, but also doesn’t consider this absolutely necessary; he strikes out in some direction or other, and one thing leads to the next. All paths lead to lives of some sort, and that’s all he requires, for every life promises a great deal and is replete with possibilities enchantingly fulfilled.”
― Robert Walser, Looking at Pictures