Virtue looks good but it only suits imposing figures.
The laws of this world are for children.
Any fool can have bad luck; the art consists in knowing how to exploit it.
Kitsch is the contemporary form of the Gothic, Rococo, Baroque.
Monuments are for the living, not the dead.
We see God and the devil making fools of each other, and we nurture in ourselves the absolutely unshakable conviction that both of them are drunk.