Author: Robert Musil

Quotes

Only in the most unusual cases is it useful to determine whether a book is good or bad; for it is just as rare for it to be one or the other. It is usually both.

Only in the most unusual cases is it useful to determine whether a book is good or bad; for it is just as rare for it to be one or the other. It is usually both.

- Robert Musil

Anything that endures over time sacrifices its ability to make an impression.

Anything that endures over time sacrifices its ability to make an impression.

- Robert Musil

What is the use of good painting? We want a spell cast upon the optical part of our existence! We seldom really see the world, but when we do, we become as still as a picture.

What is the use of good painting? We want a spell cast upon the optical part of our existence! We seldom really see the world, but when we do, we become as still as a picture.

- Robert Musil

Don't you know that every perfect life would mean the end of art?

Don't you know that every perfect life would mean the end of art?

- Robert Musil

Life is to blame for everything.

Life is to blame for everything.

- Robert Musil

All still lifes are actually paintings of the world on the sixth day of creation, when God and the world were alone together, without man!

All still lifes are actually paintings of the world on the sixth day of creation, when God and the world were alone together, without man!

- Robert Musil

The thought came to me that all one loves in art becomes beautiful. Beauty is nothing but the expression of the fact that something is being loved. Only thus could she be defined.

The thought came to me that all one loves in art becomes beautiful. Beauty is nothing but the expression of the fact that something is being loved. Only thus could she be defined.

- Robert Musil

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