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

Life is to blame for everything.

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

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.

Don't you know that every perfect life would be the end of art?

... we engage in politics because we don't know anything. This is clearly revealed in the way we go about it. Our parties exist from a fear of theory. The voter fears that one idea can always be contradicted by another. Therefore the parties reciprocally defend themselves against the few old ideas they have inherited. They don't live from what they promise, but from frustrating the promises of others. This is their silent community of interests.