Ludwig Wittgenstein Quotes

Any idealism is a proper subject for art.

Kitsch tends to wallow in beauty - its shortcoming is not aesthetic, but ethical

Today we say all art is political. But I'd say all art has to do with ethics. Which after all really comes to the same thing. It's a matter of attitudes.

But I think it is a serious issue to wonder about the other platonic absolutes of say beauty and morality.

That which is striking and beautiful is not always good, but that which is good is always beautiful.

And, moreover, it is art in its most general and comprehensive form that is here discussed, for the dialogue embraces everything connected with it, from its greatest object, the state, to its least, the embellishment of sensuous existence.

One has only as much morality as one has philosophy and poetry.

The good is the beautiful.

People tend not to use this word beauty because it's not intellectual - but there has to be an overlap between beauty and intellect.

The very definition of 'beauty' is outside.

If something is done without objectifying, it can be beautiful.

In the world there exists no aesthetic plane, not even the aesthetic plane of goodness.

The good is always beautiful, the beautiful is good!

Could beauty, my lord, have better commerce than with honesty?

You want beauty,' said Hercules Poirot. 'Beauty at any price. For me, it is truth. I want always truth.

Rhetoric takes no real account of the art in literature and morality takes no account of the art in life.

The real and proper question is: why is it beautiful?

Beautiful is greater than Good, for it includes the Good.

Truth is one species of good, and not, as is usually supposed, a category distinct from good, and co-ordinate with it

The power of the Good has taken refuge in the nature of the Beautiful

Beauty is as useful as the useful. More so, perhaps. (Le beau est aussi utile que l'utile. Plus peut-etre.)

Truth and Good are one; and Beauty dwells in them, and they in her.

What we also need to have a discussion on the philosophy of art: so we must ask what is it that we want in the first place? Is it just about saying and doing whatever you want, or is it about something more? We should let the artist be free, but we must also question how exactly he deals with freedom. Is it arts for elevation or arts for destruction? Is there dignity in the process?

The only thing that is good without qualification is a good will.

Art is the most beautiful deception of all!