“One must give value to their existence by behaving as if ones very existence were a work of art.”

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

“Art is essentially the affirmation, the blessing, and the deification of existence.”

“One must reach out and try to grasp this astonishing finesse, that the value of life cannot be estimated.”

“The one necessary thing.— A person must have one or the other. Either a cheerful disposition by nature, or a disposition made cheerful by art and knowledge.”

“One thing a man must have: either a naturally light disposition or a disposition lightened by art and knowledge.”

“One has to take a somewhat bold and dangerous line with this existence: especially as, whatever happens, we are bound to lose it.”