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.

Joy is not in things; it is in us.

Plant life instead of animal food is the keystone of regeneration. Jesus used bread instead of flesh and wine in place of blood at the Lord's Supper.

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

The only form of music is melody, without melody music is not feasible, and music and melody are quite inseparable.

You know my faithfulness to you, never can another own my heart, never - never - never...

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.