Franz Grillparzer Quotes

I think you can leave the arts, superior or inferior, to the conscience of mankind.

What does culture want? To make infinity comprehensible.

The fact is that even art is subject to fashion.

Fashion, for me, is anything that's aesthetic and beautiful. Art, food, film. It's something that I appreciate and really like.

I am of the opinion that the appreciation and the desire for what is good takes more study and insight than does the understanding and test for the best music and art.

I am like a sponge: I adore reading, watching films, and visiting museums and exhibitions. I am always in search of new things in many spheres.

The place of the arts in the classroom is essential in encouraging invention, ambition, and an understanding of the importance and pleasures of living an examined life.

By a curious confusion, many modern critics have passed from the proposition that a masterpiece may be unpopular to the other proposition that unless it is unpopular it cannot be a masterpiece.

Women, in general, are not attracted to art at all, nor knowledge, and not at all to genius.

The costs of an ignorance of science are nor just practical ones like misbegotten policies, forgone cures, and a unilateral disarmament in national competitiveness. There is a moral cost as well. It is an astonishing fact about our species that we understand so much about the history of the universe. the forces that make it tick, the stuff it's made of; the origin of living things, and the machinery of life. A failure to nurture this knowledge shows a philistine indifference to the magnificent achievements humanity is capable of; like allowing a great work of art to molder in a warehouse.

Bunglers and pedants judge art according to genre; they approve of this and dismiss that genre, but instead of genres, the open-minded connoisseur appreciates only individual works.

There have been many definitions of beauty in art. What is it? Beauty is what the untrained eyes consider abominable.

Only the work of art itself can raise the standard of taste.

Through art mysterious bonds of understanding and of knowledge are established among men.

Sciences provide an understanding of a universal experience, Arts are a universal understanding of a personal experience... they are both a part of us and a manifestation of the same thing... the arts and sciences are avatars of human creativity

Yet, even now, ever time (often) that I find that I don't understand something, then instinctively, I'm filled with the hope that perhaps this will be my moment again, perhaps once again I shall understand nothing, I shall grasp that other knowledge, found and lost in an instant.

Just because we are not Italian, does not mean we cannot appreciate Michelangelo, it is the same with cuisine.

What's so astonishing about not understanding? There are so many things in art, beginning with art itself, that one doesn't understand. A painter doesn't see everything that he has put in his painting.

As art is a habit with reference to things to be done, so is science a habit in respect to things to be known.

Absolute catholicity of taste is not without its dangers. It is only an auctioneer who should admire all schools of art.

A peculiar work in any art must not be too hastily judged. New styles have to create new tastes.

The sight of a Black nun strikes their sentimentality; and, as I am unalterably rooted in native ground, they consider me a work of primitive art, housed in a magical color; the incarnation of civilized, anti-heathenism, and the fruit of a triumphing idea.

When intelligent people pride themselves on not understanding, it is quite natural they should succeed better than fools.

There is an admiration which is the daughter of knowledge.

It is impossible that beauty should ever distinctly appreciate itself.