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!

What is the use of good painting? We want a spell cast upon the optical part of our existence! We seldom really see the world, but when we do, we become as still as a picture.

Anything that endures over time sacrifices its ability to make an impression.

It is, all in all, a historic error to believe that the master makes the school; the students make it!

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.

Have we not huddled in bunkers, while some premonition of tomorrow hung in the air and a comrade started singing? Oh, it felt so melancholy! And it was kitsch.

True' and 'false' are the evasions of people who never want to arrive at a decision. Truth is something without end.