Humor is the contemplation of the finite from the point of view of the infinite.

- Christian Morgenstern

There are often some hundred times, a thousand times, before you can really see it for the first time.

- Christian Morgenstern

Home isn't where our house is, but wherever we are understood.

- Christian Morgenstern

The hidden child wants to be able to participate and to co-create in art, rather than being simply an admiring viewer.

- Christian Morgenstern

Enthusiasm is the most beautiful word on earth.

- Christian Morgenstern

If modern civilization man had to kill the animals he eats, the number of vegetarians would rise astronomically.

- Christian Morgenstern

Woe to humanity, should only a single animal have a seat in the Last Judgement.

- Christian Morgenstern

A true artist never portrays to please, but to show.

- Christian Morgenstern

In every work of art, the artist himself is present.

- Christian Morgenstern