It was the very essence of the unknown; it was the sum of the terrors of the unknown, the one culminating and unthinkable catastrophe that could happen to him, about which he knew nothing and about which he feared everything.

Love is the sum of all the arts, as it is the reason for their existence.

The more one has suffered, the less one demands. To protest is a sign one has traversed no hell.

The “I” thought is said to be the sum total of all thoughts. The source of the “I” thought has to be inquired into.

I am astonished, disappointed, pleased with myself. I am distressed, depressed, rapturous. I am all these things at once, and cannot add up the sum

The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that suits all cases

I was brought up to believe that the only thing worth doing was to add to the sum of accurate information in the world.

My works are dear to me, each in its own way, I shall have to answer for them on the Day off Judgement. God alone knows whether I shall ever see them again. Quite apart from the money which I was going to receive for their sale there (exhibition in Gallery Der Sturm, Berlin June-July, 1914) and it is no small sum.

We are a sum total of what we have learned from all who have taught us, both great and small.