Art Quote by Max Weber Download Open image “Every type of purely direct concrete description bears the mark of artistic portrayal.” — Max Weber ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.6 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Art Artistic Bears Concrete Description Direct Every Mark Portrayal Type
Abstraction returned as soon as artists tried to come to closer grips with reality than naturalistic representation permitted... — Sigfried Giedion Copy Share Image
We speak of concrete and not abstract painting because nothing is more concrete, more real than a line, a color, a surface. — Theo van Doesburg Copy Share Image
We are all hungry and thirsty for concrete images. Abstract art will have been good for one thing: to restore its exact virginity to… — Salvador Dali Copy Share Image
Art has to be incredibly layered. Symbols, signifiers... layers that relate. Combine signifiers with more abstract notions. Push! Vary lines. — Kay WalkingStick Copy Share Image
From the point of view of art, there are no concrete or abstract forms, but only forms which are more or less convincing lies. — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
If Art relates itself to an Object, it becomes descriptive, divisionist, literary. — Robert Delaunay Copy Share Image
Every true artist has been inspired more by the beauty of lines and color and the relationships between them than by the concrete subject… — Piet Mondrian Copy Share Image
I expect of abstraction as much as what imagery does for me... to carry meaning. — Kay WalkingStick Copy Share Image
Art is a wholly physical language whose words are all the visible objects. — Gustave Courbet Copy Share Image
“It is horrible to think that the world could one day be filled with nothing but those little cogs, little men clinging to little jobs and striving towards bigger ones - a state of affairs which is to be seen once more, as in the Egyptian records, playing an ever-increasing part in the spirit of our present administrative system, and… — Max Weber Copy Share
A government is an institution that holds a monopoly on the legitimate use of violence. — Max Weber Copy Share Image
The fate of an epoch that has eaten of the tree of knowledge is that it must...recognize that general views of life and the universe can never be the products of increasing empirical knowledge, and that the highest ideals, which move us most forcefully, are always formed only in the struggle with other ideals which are just as sacred to… — Max Weber Copy Share
The nation is burdened with the heavy curse on those who come afterwards. The generation before us was inspired by an activism and a… — Max Weber Copy Share Image
Whenever known and sufficient causes are available, it is anti-scientific to discard them in favour of a hypothesis that can never be verified. — Max Weber Copy Share Image
[In] the realm of science, ... what we have achieved will be obsolete in ten, twenty or fifty years. That is the fate, indeed,… — Max Weber Copy Share Image
The experience of the irrationality of the world has been the driving force of all religious revolution. — Max Weber Copy Share Image
Ideas come when we do not expect them, and not when we are brooding and searching at our desks. Yet ideas would certainly not… — Max Weber Copy Share Image
The summum bonum of this [Puritan] ethic is the earning of more and more money combined with the strict avoidance of all enjoyment. — Max Weber Copy Share Image
The fate of our times is characterized by rationalization and intellectualization and, above all, by the 'disenchantment of the world.' Precisely the ultimate and most sublime values have retreated from public life either into the transcendental realm of mystic life or into the brotherliness of direct and personal human relations. It is not accidental that our greatest art is intimate… — Max Weber Copy Share
Daily and hourly, the politician inwardly has to overcome a quite trivial and all-too-human enemy: a quite vulgar vanity. — Max Weber Copy Share Image
“The ultimately possible attitudes toward life are irreconcilable, and hence their struggle can never be brought to a final conclusion.” — Max Weber 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
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