“The edge of the sea is a strange and beautiful place.”

“Home was a dream she’d had yesterday. A place where children used to play. Among towers near the mountains, by a river, on curving sweeps of white or golden sand beside a palace at the edge of the sea.”

“Death is a meeting place of sea and sea.”

“A mind forever Voyaging through strange seas of Thought, alone.”

“Beauty walks a razor's edge, someday I'll make it mine.”

“That sinuous southern life, that oblique and slow and complicated old beauty, that warm thick air and blood warm sea, that place of mists and languor and fragrant richness…”

“I don't like standard beauty - there is no beauty without strangeness.”

“Strangeness is a necessary ingredient in beauty.”

“We had a very lovely place [in Ascona with his life-companion Marianne Werefkin ] with a garden directly on the lake. It was on the edge of Ascona. Next to it began the Campagna [landscape], and this Campagna was enchantingly beautiful, like a dream.”

“There must be something strangely sacred about salt. It is in our tears and in the sea”