Bunglers and pedants judge art according to genre; they approve of this and dismiss that genre, but instead of genres, the open-minded connoisseur appreciates only individual works.

You even called me stupid in your verse, and I'm almost agreeing, for where stupidity is involved, you are quite an expert, friend.

Plato calls complacency the companion of loneliness.

Poetry, it is often said and loudly so, is life's true mirror. But a monkey looking into a work of literature looks in vain for Socrates.

Let the will embrace the highest ideals freely and with infinite strength, but let action first take hold of what lies closest.

The art of acting presupposes three phases: understanding a part, intuiting a part, and contemplating the essence of a part.

Who could deny that our Austria is richer than any other country? As the saying goes: "We have money like manure.