German is of stone, limestone, pudding stone, marble, granite even, and so to a considerable degree is English, whereas French is bronze and gives out a metallic resonance with tones that neither German nor English tolerate.

The ultimate justification of the work of art is to help the spectator to become a work of art himself.

There are two futures, the future of desire and the future of fate, and man's reason has never learnt to separate them.

Art is mind and heart and touch as much and more than it is mere instrument, technique - without which however it cannot exist at all.

We usually meet all of our relatives only at funerals where somebody always observes: "Too bad we can't get together more often".

Who will free me from hurry, flurry, the feeling of a crowd pushing behind me, of being hustled and crushed? How can I regain even for a minute the feeling of ample leisure I had during my early, my creative years? Then I seldom felt fussed, or hurried. There was time for work, for play, for love, the confidence that if a task was not done at the appointed time, I easily could fit it into another hour. I used to take leisure for granted, as I did time itself.

You can parody and make fun of almost anything, but that does not turn the universe into a caricature.