Appreciate Quote by Franz Grillparzer

It's awful undermining to the intellect, German is; you want to take it in small doses, or first you know your brains all run…

— Mark Twain

Sometimes we look at a work of art and we immediately think that it is German art, but with some we don't, it's not…

— Michael Craig-Martin

The German mind has a talent for making no mistakes but the very greatest.

— Clifton Fadiman

I believe it is no wrong Observation, that Persons of Genius, and those who are most capable of Art, are always fond of Nature,…

— Alexander Pope

There is a certain comfort that comes from feeling intellectually apart from phenomena. That you have the luxury of time to reflect or apply…

— Carrie Brownstein

“The subjectivist approach to art simply fails to understand that the subjective experience of art in itself is meaningless, and that in order to…

— Theodor W. Adorno

As yet, if a man has no feeling for art he is considered narrow-minded, but if he has no feeling for science this is…

— Isidor Isaac Rabi

One is conscious of no brave and noble earnestness in it, of no generalized passion for intellectual and spiritual adventure, of no organized determination…

— H. L. Mencken

You can understand nothing about art, particularly modern art, if you do not understand that imagination is a value in itself.

— Milan Kundera

It's as if, for Schopenhauer and perhaps Kant, the mind is there up and running, equipped with its categories and concepts that it then…

— David E. Cooper

For if the modern mind is whimsical and discursive, the classical mind is narrow, unhesitating, relentless. It is not a quality of intelligence that…

— Donna Tartt

In Germany, people feel like they own classical music, that it is somehow theirs. Over there, everyone still learns to play, and the great…

— Max Richter