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There art two cardinal sins from which all others spring: Impatience and Laziness.

There art two cardinal sins from which all others spring: Impatience and Laziness.

Franz Kafka
Patience, Art, Spring

Art is for the artist is only suffering through which he releases himself for further suffering.

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Art, Suffering, Release
Franz Kafka (2014). “Metamorphosis: The original story by Franz Kafka as well as important analysis”, p.9, BoD – Books on Demand

Picasso only registers the deformities which have not yet penetrated our consciousness. Art is a mirror which goes 'fast' like a watch - sometimes.

Franz Kafka
Art, Mirrors, Watches

The Kafka paradox: art depends on truth, but truth, being indivisable, cannot know itself: to tell the truth is to lie. thus the writer is the truth, and yet when he speakes he lies.

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Art, Lying, Telling The Truth

The dream reveals the reality which conception lags behind. That is the horror of life-the terror of art.

Franz Kafka
Dream, Art, Halloween
Franz Kafka (1972). “The Metamorphosis”

Our art is a way of being dazzled by truth: the light on the grotesquely grimacing retreating face is true, and nothing else.

Franz Kafka
Art, Truth, Light
Franz Kafka (1954). “Wedding preparations in the country: and other posthumous prose writings. With notes by Max Brod”

Art flies around truth, but with the definite intention of not getting burnt. Its capacity lies in finding in the dark void a place where the beam of light can be intensely caught, without this having been perceptible before.

Franz Kafka
Art, Lying, Dark
Franz Kafka (1991). “The Blue Octavo Notebooks”

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