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“Her body is one big refrigerator, where Art is well stored.”

Quote by Elfriede Jelinek

Book:The Piano Teacher

Work

The Piano Teacher

This book delves into the psyche of a piano teacher, unraveling the intricate layers of her personal struggles and desires. The narrative takes readers through her internal conflict and the impact it has on her life and relationships. more

Author

Elfriede Jelinek

Elfriede Jelinek is a renowned playwright, born on October 20, 1946. Her works are known for their profound social criticism and exploration of female experiences. Jelinek has received international recognition for her work, including the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2016. more

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“Of course they won't bloody remember, they'll be dead.' Then she called him a name in a dead language that translated, roughly, to 'poop on a stick,' but sounded more succinct, like this: 'Of course they won't bloody remember, they'll be dead, Poopstick.”

Book:Sacré Bleu: A Comedy d'Art

Source: Sacré Bleu: A Comedy d'Art

“What did one see if one looked in any depth into the world of this writer's fiction? Elegant self-control concealing from the world's eyes until the very last moment a state of inner disintegration and biological decay; sallow ugliness, sensuously marred and worsted, which nevertheless is able to fan its smouldering concupiscence to a pallid impotence, which from the glowing depths of the spirit draws strength to cast down a whole proud people at the foot of the Cross and set its own foot upon them as well; gracious poise and composure in the empty austere service of form; the false, dangerous life of the born deceiver, his ambition and his art which lead so soon to exhaustion ---”

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Book:Death in Venice and Other Tales

Source: Death in Venice and Other Tales

“Valuable elements may be easier to experience in art and in anticipation than in reality. The anticipatory and artistic imaginations omit and compress, they cut away the periods of boredom and direct our attention to critical moments and, without either lying or embellishing, thus lend to life a vividness and a coherence that it may lack in the distracting woolliness of the present.”

Book:The Art of Travel

Source: The Art of Travel

“Eccentric and secret genius that he was, Bosch not only moved the heart, but scandalized it into full awareness. The sinister and monstrous things that he brought forth are the hidden creatures of our inward self-love: he externalizes the ugliness within, and so his misshapen demons have an effect beyond curiosity. We feel a hateful kinship with them. The Ship of Fools is not about other people. It is about us.”

Art Christianity Theology Art History Bosch Hieronymus Bosch

Book:The Story of Painting

Source: The Story of Painting

“Suddenly I saw in front of me the Statue of the Faun, the Statue that I love above all others. There was his calm, faintly smiling face; there was his forefinger gently pressed to his lips. [...] Hush! he told me. Be comforted!”

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Book:Piranesi

Source: Piranesi

“Anyone can put paint on a canvas, but only a true master can bring the painting to life. Anyone can kill, but only a genius can make murder an art.”

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Book:The Kult

Source: The Kult

“Nobody is worthy to be loved. The fact that God loves man shows us that in the divine order of ideal things it is written that eternal love is to be given to what is eternally unworthy. Or if that phrase seems to be a bitter one to bear, let us say that everybody is worthy of love, except him who thinks he is.”

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Book:De Profundis

Source: De Profundis

“Color is the keyboard, the eyes are the hammers, the soul is the piano with its many chords. The artist is the hand that, by touching this or that key, sets the soul vibrating automatically.”

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“Tyrants know there is in the work of art an emancipatory force, which is mysterious only to those who do not revere it. Every great work makes the human face more admirable and richer, and this is its whole secret.”

Art Freedom Liberty Tyranny Oppression Artists Totalitarianism

Book:Create Dangerously

Source: Create Dangerously

“Like punk rock, like Jackson Pollock, like Jack Kerouac, it was truly human, a mix of perfect beauty and cathartic error.”

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Source: The Facts Behind the Helsinki Roccamatios