I don't want life to imitate art. I want life to be art.

I don't want life to imitate art. I want life to be art.

Life doesn't imitate art, it imitates bad television.

Man, became man through work, who stepped out of the animal kingdom as transformer of the natural into the artificial, who became therefore the magician, man the creator of social reality, will always stay the great magician, will always be Prometheus...

Man, became man through work, who stepped out of the animal kingdom as transformer of the natural into the artificial, who became therefore the magician, man the creator of social reality, will always stay the great magician, will always be Prometheus bringing fire from heaven to earth, will always be Orpheus enthralling nature with his music. Not until humanity itself dies will art die.

To provoke dreams of terror in the slumber of prosperity has become the moral duty of literature.