“Existence is illusory and it is eternal.”

“What did it matter if he existed for two or for twenty years? Happiness was the fact that he had existed.”

“For who would dare to assert that eternal happiness can compensate for a single moment's human suffering”

“Many artists, even the greatest ones, are not sure of their own existence. So they search for proof, they judge, they condemn. It strengthens them, it is the beginnings of existence. They are alone!”

“I rebel; therefore I exist.”

“A step lower and strangeness creeps in: perceiving that the world is "dense", sensing to what a degree a stone is foreign and irreducible to us, with what intensity nature or a landscape can negate us. At the heart of all beauty lies something inhuman, and these hills, the softness of the sky, the outline of these trees at this very minute lose the illusory meaning with which we had clothed them, henceforth more remote than a lost paradise. The primitive hostility of the world rises up to face us across millenia.”

“If the world were clear, art would not exist.”