Karl Kraus
Karl Kraus
Karl Krauswas an Austrian writer and journalist, known as a satirist, essayist, aphorist, playwright and poet. He directed his satire at the press, German culture, and German and Austrian politics. The Austrian author Stefan Zweig once called Kraus "the master of venomous ridicule"...
NationalityAustrian
ProfessionWriter
Date of Birth28 April 1874
CountryAustria
artist seized
The agitator seizes the world. The artist is seized by it.
art fire acting
The art of an actress is sublimated sexuality. But off the stage the fire must be able to reconvert the steam into body.
art writing erotic
Insights into erotic life belong to art, not education. But sometimes these have to be spelled out for the illiterates. And it ismainly a matter of convincing the illiterates, for they are the ones who write the penal code.
art three entertainment
The tyranny of necessity grants its slaves three kinds of freedom: opinion free from intellect, entertainment free from art, and orgies free from love.
artist
The agitator seizes the word. The artist is seized by it.
artist vain duty
Artists have a right to be modest and a duty to be vain.
art weakness dogma
The ultimate aim of psychoanalysis is to attribute art to mental weakness, and then to trace the weakness back to the point where, according to analytic dogma, it originated namely, the lavatory.
art character men
This is something that I cannot get over -- that a whole line could be written by half a man, that a work could be built on the quicksand of a character.
beautiful art embrace
Love and art do not embrace what is beautiful but what is made beautiful by this embrace.
artist symphony lord
An artist should make concessions to the listener. That is why Bruckner dedicated one of his symphonies to the Good Lord.
art art-is clear
Art is something that is so perfectly clear that no one comprehends it.
criticism abbreviations artistic
A pun, though despicable in itself, can be the noblest vehicle of an artistic intention by serving as the abbreviation of a wittyview. It can be a social criticism in the form of an epigram.
art boredom looks
A philistine is habitually bored and looks for things that won't bore him. An artist finds things boring, but is never bored.
art science light
Science is spectral analysis. Art is light synthesis.