Life forms a surface that acts as if it could not be otherwise, but under its skin things are pounding and pulsing.

There is nothing in this world as invisible as a monument

Is not art a tool we employ to peel the kitsch off life? Layer by layer art strips life bare. The more abstract it gets, the more transparent the air is. Can it be that the farther it is removed from life, the clearer art becomes?

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

It's not the genius who is 100 years ahead of his time but average man who is 100 years behind it.

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?

Every day there comes a moment when a person lays his hands in his lap and all his busyness collapses like ashes. The work accomplished is, from the soul's point of view, entirely imaginary.