The day when a sportsman stops thinking above all else of the happiness in his own effort and the intoxication of the power and physical balance he derives from it the day when he lets considerations of vanity or interest take over on this day his ideal will die.

Man being reasonable must get drunk the best of life is but intoxication.

The reward of art is not fame or success but intoxication: that is why so many bad artists are unable to give it up.

For art to exist for any sort of aesthetic activity to exist a certain physiological precondition is indispensable: intoxication.

The intoxication of anger like that of the grape shows us to others but hides us from ourselves.