"The most important things are not to be found in the conscious, but in the unconscious."

"The essence of art is that it creates a world that is more real than reality."

"Perhaps one has to have placed life in the center of one's worldview and valued it as much as I have in order to know that one may not keep it, but must yield it up."

"The essence of secrecy is that it is a form of power."

"The value of an object is not in its usefulness, but in its exchangeability."