Christian Morgenstern Art Quotations

Enthusiasm is the most beautiful word on earth.

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

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

In every man there is a hidden child which is called the urge to create and he prefers as play things and serious things not the miniature ships, recreated in the minutest detail, but the walnutshell with a bird feather as mast and sail and a pebble as the captain. He also wants to be able to participate and to co-create in art, rather than being simply an admiring viewer. For this "child in man" is the immortal creator within him.

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