Genius is the talent of a man who is dead.

Laughter is the mind's intonation. There are ways of laughing which have the sound of counterfeit coins.

A poet is a man who puts up a ladder to a star and climbs it while playing a violin.

Barbarism is needed every four or five hundred years to bring the world back to life. Otherwise it would die of civilization.

A painting in a museum hears more ridiculous opinions than anything else in the world.