The goal changes from the general to the individual from need to wish, from ethics to aesthetics.

Everything is in constant flux, from state to state, from good to bad and back again... only in transmutation, perpetual motion, lies truth.

A creative train of thought is set off by: the unexpected, the unknown, the accidental, the disorderly, the absurd, the impossible.

We are not disillusioned because we have no illusions... What we have and what is our strength, is our joy in life... in all its amoral aspects. That is also the basis of our contemporary art.

Beautiful, ugly, impressive, disgusting, meaningless, grim, contradictory etc … It makes no difference, as long as it is life, vigorously pouring forth.

We are sparks that must glow as brightly as possible.

To break and be able to grow together again in a better way: that is the difficult art.

The significance of something lies in its presence here and now. I don't care what it has been or what it will become. It is the experience of things that matters, the confrontation with things.

Being an artist is being an isolated individual.

To make the material speak to man in the name of man, this is the aim and reality of art.

The artist's interest cannot be restricted to a single field; he must seek the highest perception of everything, of the whole and its details.

Life takes a bit of time and a lot of relationship.

Love does not only need a taste, but it also needs a present.

Gratitude is a vaccine, an antitoxin, and an antiseptic.

You cannot lecture another people about what you think is right or wrong based on your value system unless you're willing to accept others imposing their value system on you.

Nature makes penicillin; I just found it.

I think you kind of lose the human aspect when you make things too perfect.

Seems like the only kind of job an American can get these days is committing suicide in some way.

To give someone a piece of your heart, is worth more than all the wealth in the world.

I never experiment with anything in my books. Experimentation means you don't know what you're doing.

Freedom is such a precious commodity. Yet sometimes the freest of people devalue it the most.