Jo Franz Quotes

A non-writing writer is a monster courting insanity.

Believing means liberating the indestructible element in oneself, or, more accurately, liberating oneself, or, more accurately, being indestructible, or, more accurately, being.

Sometimes I'd like to stuff all Jews (myself included) into the drawer of a laundry basket. then open it to see if they've suffocated

As someone who played a team sport, I feel a bit uncomfortable being ranked as an individual so high.

Why does God endow us with compassion?

There sat I, a faded being, under faded leaves.

If you're a painter, you're not alone. There's no way to be alone.

I'm thinking only of my illness and my health, though both, the first as well as the second, are you.

As for famous men who were not artists, I am beginning to be tired of them. Those poor little scoundrels who are called great men fill me with nothing but overwhelming horror.

I miss you deeply, unfathomably, senselessly, terribly.

Martyrs do not underrate the body, they allow it to be elevated on the cross. In this they are at one with their antagonists.

I want you for always...days, years, eternities.

To be right is the most terrific personal state that nobody is interested in.

You instinctively like what you can't do.

The greatest misfortune of the wise man and the greatest unhappiness of the fool are based upon convention.

Kill me, or you are a murderer.

In argument similes are like songs in love; they describe much, but prove nothing.

In me, by myself, without human relationship, there are no visible lies. The limited circle is pure.

It isn't necessary that you leave home. Sit at your desk and listen. Don't even listen, just wait. Don't wait, be still and alone. The whole world will offer itself to you.

Adam's first domestic pet after the expulsion from Paradise was the serpent.

According to the universal laws, the magician will form his own point of view about the universe which henceforth will be his true religion.

The child is an inner possibility, the possibility of renewal.

A man endures misfortune without complaint.

Sometimes I think I can expiate all my past and future sins through the aching of my bones.

For words are magical formulae. They leave finger marks be hind on the brain, which in the twinkling of an eye become the footprints of history. One ought to watch one' s every word.

Number is therefore the most primitive instrument of bringing an unconscious awareness of order into consciousness.

God gives the nuts, but he does not crack them.

A first sign of the beginning of understanding is the wish to die.

We must always be aware of the fact that the body, soul and mind are to be trained simultaneously, for otherwise it would be impossible to gain and maintain the magic equipoise.

From the true antagonist illimitable courage is transmitted to you.

Nothing has been spared in this world.

The object of my researches is the brain. The cranium is only a faithful cast of the external surface of the brain, and is consequently but a minor part of the principal object.

Sorrowful and great is the artist's destiny.

I did not compose my work as one might put on a church vestment... rather it sprung from the truly fervent faith of my heart, such as I have felt it since my childhood.

Today we are searching for things in nature that are hidden behind the veil of appearance... We look for and paint this inner, spiritual side of nature.

The midwife of history is violence.

Music is never stationary; successive forms and styles are only like so many resting-places - like tents pitched and taken down again on the road to the Ideal.

Slept, awoke, slept, awoke, miserable life.

Penalty shooting is always an uncertain affair because there is a lot of luck involved.

Supreme serenity still remains the Ideal of great Art. The shapes and transitory forms of life are but stages toward this Ideal, which Christ's religion illuminates with His divine light.

The Bible is a sanctum; the world, sputum.

As far as I have seen, at school...they aimed at blotting out one's individuality.

As Gregor Samsa awoke one morning from uneasy dreams he found himself transformed in his bed into a gigantic insect.

Messi is a genius. He has everything. When I watch him, I see a player who is very, very skilful, very clever and his left foot is like Diego Maradona's.

If only your pure and clean mind could touch me, dear Haydn, nobody has a greater reverence for you than I have.

They're talking about things of which they don't have the slightest understanding, anyway. It's only because of their stupidity that they're able to be so sure of themselves.

You cannot imagine how it spoils one to have been a child prodigy.

My 'fear' is my substance, and probably the best part of me.

George Best was one of the most talented players of all time and probably the best footballer who never made it to a major world final.

There are eight girls in the house in which I am living, and practically all of them are good looking. You can realize that I am kept busy.