Art is the subjective, preferential treatment of certain elements of reality; it selects and resets, distributes light and shade, omits and underlines, softens and emphasises.
Art is the subjective, preferential treatment of certain elements of reality; it selects and resets, distributes light and shade, omits and underline… - Egon Friedell
Art is the subjective, preferential treatment of certain elements of reality; it selects and resets, distributes light and shade, omits and underline…
- Egon Friedell
The artist's view of the world and mankind is that which seeks as far as possible to lose itself in its object, illuminating it not from the outside … - Egon Friedell
The artist's view of the world and mankind is that which seeks as far as possible to lose itself in its object, illuminating it not from the outside …
Clothe an idea in words and it loses its freedom of movement. - Egon Friedell
Clothe an idea in words and it loses its freedom of movement.
All knowing that goes beyond the immediate experience of the moment is a matter of faith. - Egon Friedell
All knowing that goes beyond the immediate experience of the moment is a matter of faith.
The highest, the only reality, is ever at hand, but for the most part invisible. Genius makes it visible. - Egon Friedell
The highest, the only reality, is ever at hand, but for the most part invisible. Genius makes it visible.
We can never see the world other than incompletely: deliberately to see it as incomplete is to create an artistic aspect. - Egon Friedell
We can never see the world other than incompletely: deliberately to see it as incomplete is to create an artistic aspect.
Electricity and magnetism are those forces of nature by which people who know nothing about electricity and magnetism can explain everything. - Egon Friedell
Electricity and magnetism are those forces of nature by which people who know nothing about electricity and magnetism can explain everything.
Artists of all sorts remain youthful for so long, and in many cases attain a grand old age. The explanation is that they live in an almost permanent … - Egon Friedell
Artists of all sorts remain youthful for so long, and in many cases attain a grand old age. The explanation is that they live in an almost permanent …
God does not rule the world outwardly by gravitation and chemical affinity, but inwardly in the heart of man: as is your soul, so will the destiny be… - Egon Friedell
God does not rule the world outwardly by gravitation and chemical affinity, but inwardly in the heart of man: as is your soul, so will the destiny be…
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