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Art Quotes by Milan Kundera
- Art is the human disposition of sensible or intelligible matter for an esthetic end.
- Extremism means borders beyond which life ends, and a passion for extremism, in art and in politics, is a veiled longing for death.
- You can understand nothing about art, particularly modern art, if you do not understand that imagination is a value in itself.
- Art arises from sources other than logic." (p.32)
- Do you realize that people don't know how to read Kafka simply because they want to decipher him? Instead of letting themselves be carried away…
- Living for Sabina meant seeing. Seeing is limited by two borders: strong light, which blinds, and total darkness. Perhaps that was what motivated Sabina's distaste…
- ...in our time art is encrusted with a noisy, opaque, logorrhea of theory that prevents a work from coming into direct, media free, non-interpreted contact…
- High culture is nothing but a child of that European perversion called history, the obsession we have with going forward, with considering the sequence of…
- In order to make the novel into a polyhistorical illumination of existence, you need to master the technique of ellipsis, the art of condensation. Otherwise,…
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