Creating-that is the great salvation from suffering, and life's alleviation. But for the creator to appear, suffering itself is needed, and much transformation.

There are ages in which the rational man and the intuitive man stand side by side, the one in fear of intuition, the other with scorn for abstraction. The latter is just as irrational as the former is inartistic.

In architecture the pride of man, his triumph over gravitation, his will to power, assume a visible form. Architecture is a sort of oratory of power by means of forms.

He who humbles himself wants to be exalted.

And once you are awake, you shall remain awake eternally.

When art dresses itself in the most worn-out material it is most easily recognized as art.

Let man fear woman when she loves: then she makes any sacrifice, and everything else seems without value to her