To be contemporary actually means to be an artist. [But] I do not feel contemporary in my work. I perceive my work as old-fashioned. It does not have a frame of actuality in our time or locality.

Because modernism has conquered art, kitsch is the savior of talent and devotion.

Kitsch is deep in its superficiality. Art is superficially deep.

If you fall asleep on horseback, the horse will stop by the rock. Art is a car. Kitsch is a horse.

I had a choice. I could become an economist & managing director. I choose to do something else. I would have become much, much richer than I am. I choose to not do that. It's that simple.

If a girl is in love with a poor guy and chooses him, then that is worst for her. If she chooses a rich man, it will be to her advantage. Everything will be fine.

We are all kitsch on our deathbeds.

I have always been astonished by hate. Revenge and hate. That is such strange human elements. I have seen a lot of that in my life. I am just as surprised each time. By revenge and hate.

Art is a car, kitsch is a horse.

From all I learned about life, you can’t lose yourself in others to discover yourself. You will get lost forever.

How southern belle of her.

It is our attitude at the beginning of a difficult task which, more than anything else, will affect its successful outcome.

Spending an evening on the World Wide Web is much like sitting down to a dinner of Cheetos, two hours later your fingers are yellow and you're no longer hungry, but you haven't been nourished.

To be is not a choice, but the way you feel about it certainly is.

A lot of my heartbreak songs are inspired by things my sisters are going through, or friends.

Shame on the man who goes to his grave escorted by the miserable hopes that have kept him alive.

Goodness is not in the backyard of the individual nor in the open field of the collective; goodness flowers only in freedom from both.

Never take advice from anyone in a tie. They'll bankrupt you. Don't ask a general for advice on war, and don't ask a broker for advice on money.

Ye have a watch; go your way, make it as sure as ye can.