The sitter is merely the accident, the occasion. It is not he who is revealed by the painter; it is rather the painter who, on the coloured canvas, reveals himself. The reason I will not exhibit this picture is that I am afraid that I have shown in it the secret of my own soul.

“Literature always anticipates life. It doesn't copy it but moulds it to it's pu…”

“But what world says that [I'm wicked]? It can only be the next world. This worl…”

“Many people become bankrupt through having invested too heavily in the prose of…”

“Jene Entsagungen, die die Menschen alberner Weise Tugenden nennen”