"In art there are tears that lie too…" — Louis Kronenberger

"In art there are tears that lie too deep for thought."

— Louis Kronenberger

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58 Quotes by Louis Kronenberger

Louis Kronenberger has 58 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

One of the misfortunes of our time is that in getting rid of false shame, we have killed off so…
The thrust of ambition is, and always has been, great, but among the bright-eyed it had once a more adventurous…
The Englishman wants to be recognized as a gentleman, or as some other suitable species of human being; the American…
Ours is not so much an age of vulgarity as of vulgarization; everything is tampered with or touched up, or…
True individualists tend to be quite unobservant; it is the snob, the would be sophisticate, the frightened conformist, who keeps…
If it is the great delusion of moralists to suppose that all previous ages were less sinful than their own,…
Has there ever been an age so rife with neurotic sensibility, with that state of near shudders, or near hysteria,…
The fascinating necessarily tends to call a certain attention to itself; the interesting need not. An evening spent with a…
One of the saddest things about conformity is the ghastly sort of non-conformity it breeds; the noisy protesting, the aggressive…
From the failure of the humanist tradition to participate fully or to act decisively, civilizations may perhaps crumble or perish…
A great maxim of personal responsibility and mature achievement: "Do it yourself" is now the enthroned cliche for being occupied…
Individualism is rather like innocence: There must be something unconscious about it.

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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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