Let that day be lost to us on which we did not dance once!

To experience a thing as beautiful means: to experience it necessarily wrongly.

Completely true to nature!' - what a lie: / How could nature ever be constrained into a picture? / The smallest bit of nature is infinite! / And so he paints what he likes about it. / And what does he like? He likes what he can paint!

Art is the proper task of life.

In the last analysis, even the best man is evil: in the last analysis, even the best woman is bad.

Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And if you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you.

I live in my own place - have never copied anyone even half, and at any master who lacks the grace - to laugh at himself - I laugh.