Abyss Quote by 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

You are not at home where your residence are but where you are understood.

— Christian Morgenstern

It is one of the oddest things in the world that you can read a page or more and think of something utterly different.

— Christian Morgenstern

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

— Christian Morgenstern

“That which must not, can not be.”

— Christian Morgenstern

To me, the term 'middle-class' connotes a safe, comfortable, middle-of-the road policy. Above all, our language is 'middle-class' in the middle of our road.…

— Christian Morgenstern

Home is not where you live but where they understand you.

— Christian Morgenstern

Often I am struck in amazement about a word: I suddenly realize that the complete arbitrariness of our language is but a part of…

— Christian Morgenstern

There is a ghost That eats hankerchiefs; It keeps you company On all your travels.

— Christian Morgenstern

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

— Christian Morgenstern

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

— Christian Morgenstern

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

— Christian Morgenstern