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1 " No art can possibly comfort HER then, even though art is credited with so many things, especially an ability to offer solace. Sometimes, of course, art creates the suffering in the first place. "
― Elfriede Jelinek , The Piano Teacher
2 " She will prolong her life by the length of her story, even though time will wear on inexorably as she tells it, thus depriving her of the chance to have a new experience. "
3 " Sunday, the day for the language of leisure. "
4 " Many young people are still driven to art, as in olden times. Most of them are driven by their parents, who know nothing about art—only that it exists. "
5 " The Ph.D is one of the chosen who know that some things can never be fathomed, no matter how hard you try. What good are explanations? There is no possibility of explaining how such a work [Mozart's Requiem, in the instance] could ever have come into being. (The same holds true for certain poems, which should not be analyzed either.) "
6 " Her body is one big refrigerator, where Art is well stored. "
7 " The mob not only grabs hold of art without being entitled to do so, but it also enters the artist. It takes up residence inside the artist and smashes a few holes in the wall, windows to the outer world: The mob wants to be seen. "
8 " Money never goes out of fashion. "
9 " Art and order, the relatives that refuse to relate. "
10 " the ignorant majority, which does however possess one thing in abundance: It is raring for a fight. "
11 " Every day, a piece of music, a short story, or a poem dies because its existence is no longer justified in our time. And things that were once considered immortal have become mortal again, no one knows them anymore. Even though they deserve to survive. "
12 " Vice is basically the love of failure. "
13 " The first thing a proprietor learns, and painfully at that, is: Trust is fine, but control is better. "
14 " most expensive originals have cheap imitations. "
15 " simple people. . . . listen to music with their hearts and enjoy it more than those who are spoiled, jaded, blase. "
16 " Strictly speaking, there are no holidays for art; art pursues you everywhere, and that's just fine with the artist. "
17 " Sicherheit erzeugt Angst vor dem Unsicheren. "
18 " Manchmal scheitern wir in der Tat, und ich glaube fast, dieses prinzipielle Scheitern ist unser letztes Ziel. "
19 " After all, people with a herd instinct hold mediocrity in high esteem. They praise it as having great value. They believe they are strong because they are the majority. "
20 " Only the TV sounds are real, they are the actual events. All the people around here experience the same things at the same time, except for some loner, who switches to the educational channel. "
