One must conform to the baseness of an age or become neurotic.

Only in the most unusual cases is it useful to determine whether a book is good or bad; for it is just as rare for it to be one or the other. It is usually both.

... the genius never makes anything new, but always something that is just different, and the average talents provide him the possibility within which his genius condenses into achievements.

He who is allowed to do as he likes will soon run his head into a brick wall out of sheer frustration.

One does what one is; one becomes what one does.

You see how wrong I go, how ridiculous I'm making myself in your eyes by keeping on guessing wrong like this! Doesn't that help you to come out with it? Come on now!

All still lifes are actually paintings of the world on the sixth day of creation, when God and the world were alone together, without man!