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The aphorism in which I am the first master among Germans, are the forms of “eternity”; my ambition is to say in ten sentences what everyone else says in a book – what everyone else does not say in a book.

Oh eyes, no eyes, but fountains fraught with tears; O life, no life, but lively form of death; Oh world, no world, but mass of public wrongs.

To be a true artist you have to play the way you feel – not the way others think you should feel.

All art is quite useless.

The rudiment of verse may, possibly, be found in the spondee.

To have great poets, there must be great audiences.

It’s easier to replace a dead man than a good picture.

I do not know what the spirit of a philosopher could more wish to be than a good dancer. For the dance is his ideal, also his fine art, finally also the only kind of piety he knows, his “divine service.”

Art is the most intense mode of individualism that the world has known.

The more technique you have, the less you have to worry about it. The more technique there is, the less there is.