Author: Milan Kundera

Quotes

People are going deaf because music is played louder and louder, but because they're going deaf, it has to be played louder still.

People are going deaf because music is played louder and louder, but because they're going deaf, it has to be played louder still.

- Milan Kundera

Business has only two functions - marketing and innovation.

Business has only two functions - marketing and innovation.

- Milan Kundera

All great novels, all true novels, are bisexual.

All great novels, all true novels, are bisexual.

- Milan Kundera

You can understand nothing about art, particularly modern art, if you do not understand that imagination is a value in itself.

You can understand nothing about art, particularly modern art, if you do not understand that imagination is a value in itself.

- Milan Kundera

To sit with a dog on a hillside on a glorious afternoon is to be back in Eden, where doing nothing was not boring - it was peace.

To sit with a dog on a hillside on a glorious afternoon is to be back in Eden, where doing nothing was not boring - it was peace.

- Milan Kundera

No great movement designed to change the world can bear to be laughed at or belittled. Mockery is a rust that corrodes all it touches.

No great movement designed to change the world can bear to be laughed at or belittled. Mockery is a rust that corrodes all it touches.

- Milan Kundera

Metaphors are dangerous. Love begins with a metaphor. Which is to say, love begins at the point when a woman enters her first word into our poetic memory.

Metaphors are dangerous. Love begins with a metaphor. Which is to say, love begins at the point when a woman enters her first word into our poetic memory.

- Milan Kundera

Every change of scene requires new expositions, descriptions, explanations.

Every change of scene requires new expositions, descriptions, explanations.

- Milan Kundera

Only a literary work that reveals an unknown fragment of human existence has a reason for being.

Only a literary work that reveals an unknown fragment of human existence has a reason for being.

- Milan Kundera

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