"The art we need is the art of…" — Thomas Bernhard
"The art we need is the art of bearing the unbearable."
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35 Quotes by Thomas Bernhard
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In theory we understand people, but in practice we can't put up with them, I thought, deal with them for…
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Those who live in the country get idiotic in time, without noticing it, for a while they think it's original…
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I would be the unhappiest person imaginable, confronted daily with disastrous works crying out with errors, imprecision, carelessness, amateurishness. I…
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Very often we write down a sentence too early, then another too late; what we have to do is write…
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Everyone is a virtuoso on his own instrument, but together they add up to an intolerable cacophony.
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We Can Only Exist By Taking Our Minds Off The Fact That We Exist
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Only when I am by seawater can I truly breathe, to say nothing of my ability to think.
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The anger and the brutality against everything can readily from one hour to the next be transformed into its opposite.
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Toda idea, al fin y al cabo, es una idea demencial.
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Everyone, he went on, speaks a language he does not understand, but which now and then is understood by others.…
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Lawyers make nothing but confusion...A lawyer is an instrument of the devil. In general, he's a fiendish idiot, banking on…
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I did not want to be anything, and naturally I did not want to turn myself into a mere profession:…
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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
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Let each man exercise the art he knows.
— Aristophanes
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Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them…
— Aristotle
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The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.
— Aristotle
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Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence,…
— Aristotle
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It is Homer who has chiefly taught other poets the art of telling lies skillfully.
— Aristotle
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Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and choice, is thought to aim at some good; and for…
— Aristotle
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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
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There are some forms of religion that are bad, just as there's bad cooking or bad art or bad sex,…
— Karen Armstrong
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I think it's important as a filmmaker, as any person working in the arts, that you've got to try new…
— Darren Aronofsky
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I don't care who you are, you're going to choke in certain matches. You get to a point where your…
— Arthur Ashe
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Writing, to me, is simply thinking through my fingers.
— Isaac Asimov
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