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"Is art really the priesthood that demands the pure in heart who belong to it wholly?"
"Perhaps this is the purpose of all art, all writing, on the murders, fiction and non-fiction: Simply to participate."
"Treat a work of art like a prince. Let it speak to you first."
"The vitality of a new movement in Art must be gauged by the fury it arouses."
"The aim of all commentary on art now should be to make works of art - and, by analogy, our own experience - more, rather than less, real to us. The function of criticism should be to show how it is what it is, even that it is what it is, rather than to show what it means."
"Create with the heart, build with the mind."
Explore more quotes by Franz Grillparzer
"You even called me stupid in your verse, and I'm almost agreeing, for where stupidity is involved, you are quite an expert, friend."
"I look around me and nowhere do I see a stamp of disapproval with which nature marked a woman's candid brow."
"Before passing different laws for different people, I'd relinquish myself unto you as your slave."
"If we notice a few errors in the work of a proven master, we may and even will often be correct; if we believe, however, that he is completely and utterly mistaken, we are in danger of missing his entire concept."
"Whoever places his trust into a system will soon be without a home. While you are building your third story, the two lower ones have already been dismantled."
"Ideas are not thoughts; the thought respects the boundaries that the idea ignores thereby failing to realize itself."
"To declaim freedom verses seems like a poem within a poem; freedom requires guns, it requires arms, but no feet."
"Poetry, it is often said and loudly so, is life's true mirror. But a monkey looking into a work of literature looks in vain for Socrates."
"If someone were to think that trees are made to support the sky, they would all seem too short."
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