Art Quote by Karl Kraus Download Open image “The agitator seizes the word. The artist is seized by it.” — Karl Kraus ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.5 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Art Artist
The work of art must seize upon you, wrap you up in itself, carry you away. It is the means by which the artist… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I think an artist, in my definition of that word, would not be someone who takes sides with the emperor against his powerless subjects.… — Chinua Achebe Copy Share Image
“An artist is a creature driven by demons. He doesn’t know why they choose him and he’s usually too busy to wonder why. He… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
The artist is the lover of nature; therefore he is her slave and her master. — Rabindranath Tagore Copy Share Image
The artist forges himself to the others, midway between the beauty he cannot do without and the community he cannot tear himself away from.… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
An artist is completely amoral in that he will rob, beg, borrow, or steal from anybody and everybody to get the work done. — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
Though the artist must remain master of his craft, the surface, at times raised to the highest pitch of loveliness, should transmit to the… — Alfred Sisley Copy Share Image
When the individuality of the artist begins to express itself, what the artist gains in the way of liberty he loses in the way… — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
“Words are one of the most powerful things given to human beings. In the hands of artists who can use them properly they are… — Eric T. Benoit Copy Share Image
The moment that an artist takes notice of what other people want, and tries to supply the demand, he ceases to be an artist. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Whoever is in charge of the artist will always have the upper hand. They act like it's the artists' world, but it's the other… — Sonny Sandoval Copy Share Image
You'd be surprised how hard it can often be to translate an action into an idea. — Karl Kraus Copy Share Image
A historian is not always a prophet facing backwards, but a journalist is always someone who afterwards knew everything beforehand. — Karl Kraus Copy Share Image
When a man is treated like a beast, he says, 'After all, I'm human.' When he behaves like a beast, he says 'After all,… — Karl Kraus Copy Share Image
I and my public understand each other very well: it does not hear what I say, and I don't say what it wants to… — Karl Kraus Copy Share Image
One must read all writers twice--the good as well as the bad. The one kind will be recognized; the other, unmasked. — Karl Kraus Copy Share Image
Children today laugh at fathers who tell them about dragons. It is necessary to make fear a required subject; otherwise children will never learn… — Karl Kraus Copy Share Image
The little stations are very proud because the expresses have to pass them by. — Karl Kraus Copy Share Image
The unattractive thing about chauvinism is not so much the aversion to other nations as the love of one's own. — Karl Kraus Copy Share Image
True works of art contain their own theory and give us the measurement according to which we should judge them. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Before Noah, men having only water to drink, could not find the truth. Accordingly...they became abominably wicked, and they were justly exterminated by the water they loved to drink. This good man, Noah, having seen that all his contemporaries had perished by this unpleasant drink, took a dislike to it; and God, to relieve his dryness, created the vine and… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share
“Hear the sum of the whole matter in the compass of one brief word — every art possessed by man comes from Prometheus.” — Aeschylus Copy Share Image
I think most artists feel like they're outside society - no matter how many accolades they receive, or how much money is in your… — Aaron Rose Copy Share Image
The capacity to be puzzled is the premise of all creation, be it in art or in science. — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
That's the great secret of creativity. You treat ideas like cats: you make them follow you. — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“So, really," continued Jacob as if this were perfectly normal to expound on art in these circumstances, "when you think about it, the artists who make people stop and think, who push the form, who make you uncomfortable, who are laughable, well, they're the ones who get remembered." Idly, Jacob dug a hole in the snow with his shovel and… — Justina Chen Headley Copy Share
“There are two options in art; either to adopt philosophical life by dissecting art, or to write your own philosophical life and claim it… — Taf Teh Copy Share Image
The house has to serve comfort. The work of art is revolutionary; the house is conservative. — Adolf Loos Copy Share Image
During human progress, every science is evolved out of its corresponding art. — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
In literature and art memory is a synonym for invention. It is the life-blood of imagination, which faints and dies when the veins are… — Robert Aris Willmott Copy Share Image
I think a business guy is different from an artist. They walk different paths. Artists create the best outputs when they're having fun. And… — G-Dragon Copy Share Image
