The purpose of art: to make the unconscious conscious.

One siupreme fact which I have discovered is that it is not willpower, but fantasy and imagination that ceates. Imagination is the creative force. Imagination creates reality.

Joy is not in things; it is in us.

When religion becomes artificial, art has a duty to rescue it. Art can show that the symbols which religions would have us believe literally true are actually figurative. Art can idealize those symbols, and so reveal the profound truths they contain.

I regard the Jewish race as the born enemy of pure humanity and everything that is noble in it.

I have long been convinced that my artistic ideal stands or falls with Germany. Only the Germany that we love and desire can help us achieve that ideal.

Whatever my passions demand of me, I become for the time being - musician, poet, director, author, lecturer or anything else.