The essence of all beautiful art, all great art, is gratitude.

What a beautiful art, but what a wretched profession.

Art is essentially the affirmation, the blessing, and the deification of existence

For art to exist, for any sort of aesthetic activity or perception to exist, a certain physiological precondition is indispensable: intoxication

Art is the proper task of life.

You must have chaos within you to give birth to a dancing star.