An artist is he for whom the goal and center of life is to form his mind.

Every philosophical review ought to be a philosophy of reviews at the same time.

All men are somewhat ridiculous and grotesque, just because they are men; and in this respect artists might well be regarded as man multiplied by two. So it is, was, and shall be.

Prudishness is pretense of innocence without innocence. Women have to remain prudish as long as men are sentimental, dense, and evil enough to demand of them eternal innocence and lack of education. For innocence is the only thing which can ennoble lack of education.

Through artists mankind becomes an individual, in that they unite the past and the future in the present. They are the higher organ of the soul, where the life spirits of entire external mankind meet and in which inner mankind first acts.

Gracefulness is a correct life: sensuality which contemplates and forms itself.

If you want to penetrate into the heart of physics, then let yourself be initiated into the mysteries of poetry.