Karl Kraus Quotes about Art

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A philistine is habitually bored and looks for things that won't bore him. An artist finds things boring, but is never bored.

A philistine is habitually bored and looks for things that won't bore him. An artist finds things boring, but is never bored.

Karl Kraus

Art, Boredom, Looks

Karl Kraus (1976). “Half-truths & one-and-a-half truths: selected aphorisms”

Science is spectral analysis. Art is light synthesis.

Karl Kraus

Art, Science, Light

Karl Kraus (1976). “Half-truths & one-and-a-half truths: selected aphorisms”

Insights into erotic life belong to art, not education. But sometimes these have to be spelled out for the illiterates. And it ismainly a matter of convincing the illiterates, for they are the ones who write the penal code.

Karl Kraus

Art, Writing, Erotic

If by day art is in the service of business, the evenings are devoted to the businessman's enjoyment of it. That is asking a lot of art, but art and the businessman make it work.

Karl Kraus

Art, Business, Asking

Karl Kraus (1976). “Half-truths & One-and-a-half Truths: Selected Aphorisms”

Art is something that is so perfectly clear that no one comprehends it.

Karl Kraus

Art, Art Is, Clear

This is something that I cannot get over -- that a whole line could be written by half a man, that a work could be built on the quicksand of a character.

Karl Kraus

Art, Writing, Character

Karl Kraus (1976). “Half-truths & one-and-a-half truths: selected aphorisms”

The tyranny of necessity grants its slaves three kinds of freedom: opinion free from intellect, entertainment free from art, and orgies free from love.

Karl Kraus

Art, Three, Entertainment

"In These Great Times". Book by Karl Kraus, translated by Harry Zohn, p. 74, 1976.

The art of an actress is sublimated sexuality. But off the stage the fire must be able to reconvert the steam into body.

Karl Kraus

Art, Fire, Acting

Karl Kraus (1976). “Half-truths & one-and-a-half truths: selected aphorisms”

The ultimate aim of psychoanalysis is to attribute art to mental weakness, and then to trace the weakness back to the point where, according to analytic dogma, it originated namely, the lavatory.

Karl Kraus

Art, Weakness, Dogma

Thomas Stephen Szasz, Karl Kraus (1990). “Anti-Freud: Karl Kraus's Criticism of Psychoanalysis and Psychiatry”, p.114, Syracuse University Press