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.

It will always be the same possibilities, in sum or on the average, that go on repeating themselves until a man comes along who does not value the actuality above idea. It is he who first gives the new possibilities their meaning, their direction, and he awakens them.

Philosophers are people who do violence, but have no army at their disposal, and so subjugate the world by locking it into a system.

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

A man who wants the truth becomes a scientist; a man who wants to give free play to his subjectivity may become a writer; but what should a man do who wants something in between?

Progress would be wonderful - if only it would stop.

And what would you do, ... if you could rule the world for a day? I suppose I would have no choice but to abolish reality.