"Art must not serve might." — Karel Capek

"Art must not serve might."

— Karel Capek

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38 Quotes by Karel Capek

Karel Capek has 38 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

I certainly don't know if you could claim that every theft is wrong, but I'll prove to you that every…
You can have a revolution wherever you like, except in a government office; even were the world to come to…
You ought to know that October is the first Spring month.
If dogs could talk, perhaps we would find it as hard to get along with them as we do with…
Let no one think that real gardening is a bucolic and meditative occupation. It is an insatiable passion, like everything…
There came into the world an unlimited abundance of everything people need. But people need everything except unlimited abundance.
Among human beings, a cat is merely a cat; among cats, a cat is a prowling shadow in a jungle.
I've found a place that would amaze you. People used to live there, but now it's all overgrown and no…
The average cooking in the average hotel for the average Englishman explains to a large extent the English bleakness and…
I find that a real gardener is not a man who cultivates flowers; he is a man who cultivates the…
Cognition is not fighting, but once someone knows a lot, he will have much to fight for, so much that…
Man will never be enslaved by machinery if the man tending the machine be paid enough.

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More Art Quotes

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A high heart ought to bear calamities and not flee them, since in bearing them appears the grandeur of the… — Pietro Aretino
Let each man exercise the art he knows. — Aristophanes
Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them… — Aristotle
The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance. — Aristotle
Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence,… — Aristotle
It is Homer who has chiefly taught other poets the art of telling lies skillfully. — Aristotle
Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and choice, is thought to aim at some good; and for… — Aristotle
I'd love to go to art school. I'd love to learn how to draw. I'd love to be fluent in… — Billie Joe Armstrong
There are some forms of religion that are bad, just as there's bad cooking or bad art or bad sex,… — Karen Armstrong
I think it's important as a filmmaker, as any person working in the arts, that you've got to try new… — Darren Aronofsky
I don't care who you are, you're going to choke in certain matches. You get to a point where your… — Arthur Ashe
Writing, to me, is simply thinking through my fingers. — Isaac Asimov

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