Hannah Arendt Quotes about Art

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Every thought is an afterthought.

Hannah Arendt

Art, Philosophy, History

Hannah Arendt (1981). “The Life of the Mind”, p.103, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

... we have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of life and providing for their bundance. Whatever we do, we are supposed to do for the sake of "making a living;" such is the verdict of society, and the number of people, especially in the professions who might challenge it, has decreased rapidly. The only exception society is willing to grant is to the artist, who, strictly speaking, is the only "worker" left in a laboring society.

Hannah Arendt

Art, Work, Numbers

Poetry, whose material is language, is perhaps the most human and least worldly of the arts, the one in which the end product remains closest to the thought that inspired it.

Hannah Arendt

Art, Poetry, Language

Hannah Arendt, Susannah Young-ah Gottlieb (2007). “Reflections on Literature and Culture”, p.174, Stanford University Press

With the rise of Christianity, faith replaced thought as the bringer of immortality.

Hannah Arendt

Art, Philosophy, History

Hannah Arendt (1981). “The Life of the Mind”, p.155, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Political institutions, no matter how well or badly designed, depend for continued existence upon acting men; their conservation is achieved by the same means that brought them into being. Independent existence marks the work of art as a product of making; utter dependence upon further acts to keep it in existence marks the state as a product of action.

Hannah Arendt

Art, Mean, Independent

Hannah Arendt (2000). “The Portable Hannah Arendt”, Penguin Group USA