Karl Kraus Quotes

Good taste" is a virtue of the keepers of museums. If you scorn bad taste, you will have neither painting nor dancing, neither palaces nor gardens.

There's only one reason for my whole life, and that's art. Nothing else counts; nothing else gives me pleasure; nothing else gives me satisfaction.

Every single thing you see on-screen came out of somebody's creativity. It doesn't exist. Nature didn't deliver it to us. Everything had to be dreamed.

God has given us an imagination, and our imagination is really the principle tool from which all creativity and artistry comes from.

Lying in bed would be an altogether perfect and supreme experience if only one had a colored pencil long enough to draw on the ceiling.

The creative act amazes me. Whether it's poetry, whether it's music, it's an amazing process, and it has something to do with bringing forth the old out into the world to create and to bring forth that which will rejuvenate.

We especially need imagination in science. It is not all mathematics, nor all logic, but it is somewhat beauty and poetry.

Art is science made clear.

Like all artists, I go through creative spurts.

Genius creates, and taste preserves. Taste is the good sense of genius; without taste, genius is only sublime folly.

When I finish a painting, it usually looks as surprising to me as to anyone else.

There hasn't been any art yet. Art is just beginning.

Our world is enriched when coders and marketers dazzle us with smartphones and tablets, but, by themselves, they are just slabs. It is the music, essays, entertainment and provocations that they access, spawned by the humanities, that animate them - and us.

The very essence of the creative is its novelty, and hence we have no standard by which to judge it.

The debt we owe to the play of imagination is incalculable.

There is such amazing talent at Disney. My job is 100% creative, and I am very excited to creatively lead them.

I take a lot from everywhere. I take from music, architecture, novels, and plays. Anywhere that hits you.

Art flourishes where there is a sense of adventure.

The great thing about this thing we call art is that it has no rules.

It is through art, and through art only, that we can realise our perfection.

I think that art has the ability to capture people's imaginations and make them think that more is possible.

The definition of the good life is doing creative things, whether making music, trying to figure out how to do a particular piece of code, or putting together investments.

The arts stimulate imagination. They provoke thought. And then, having done that, all sorts of other things happen.

The visionary imagination is the source of art and religion.

Music is a major cornerstone of our success.