art Quotes

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

The essence of all beautiful art, all great art, is gratitude.

We have art in order not to die of the truth.

The bad gains respect through imitation, the good loses it especially in art.

Art raises its head where creeds relax.

An artist has no home in Europe except in Paris.

Art is the proper task of life.

When art dresses in worn-out material it is most easily recognized as art.

I do not know what the spirit of a philosopher could more wish to be than a good dancer. For the dance is his ideal, also his fine art, finally also the only kind of piety he knows, his 'divine service.'

'Evil men have no songs.' How is it that the Russians have songs?