Simone Weil Quotes About Art

Quotes about: Art

• The work of art which I do not make, none other will ever make.

  Simone Weil

  Art, Works Of Art

  Simone Weil (2013). “The Notebooks of Simone Weil”, p.206, Routledge

• A work of art has an author and yet, when it is perfect, it has something which is anonymous about it.

  Simone Weil

  Art, Work, Perfect

  Simone Weil (2002). “Gravity and Grace”, p.149, Psychology Press

• More than in any other performing arts the lack of respect for acting seems to spring from the fact that every layman considers himself a valid critic.

  Simone Weil

  Inspirational, Motivational, Respect

• Art is the symbol of the two noblest human efforts: to construct and to refrain from destruction.

  Simone Weil

  Art, Two, Effort

  Simone Weil (2015). “First and Last Notebooks: Supernatural Knowledge”, p.42, Wipf and Stock Publishers

• A modern factory reaches perhaps almost the limit of horror. Everybody in it is constantly harassed and kept on edge by the interference of extraneous wills while the soul is left in cold desolate misery. What man needs is silence and warmth; what he is given is an icy pandemonium. Physical labor may be painful, but it is not degrading as such. It is not art; it is not science; it is something else, possessing an exactly equal value with art and science, for it provides an equal opportunity to reach the impersonal stage of attention.

  Simone Weil

  Art, Men, Opportunity

  Simone Weil (2015). “Selected Essays, 1934-1943: Historical, Political, and Moral Writings”, p.17, Wipf and Stock Publishers

• To want friendship is a great fault. Friendship ought to be a gratuitous joy, like the joys afforded by art or life.

  Simone Weil

  Friendship, Art, Joy

  Simone Weil (2015). “First and Last Notebooks: Supernatural Knowledge”, p.43, Wipf and Stock Publishers

• Most works of art, like most wines, ought to be consumed in the district of their fabrication.

  Simone Weil

  Art, Wine, Ought

• It is precisely those artists and writers who are most inclined to think of their art as the manifestation of their personality who are in fact the most in bondage to public taste.

  Simone Weil

  Art, Creativity, Thinking

  Simone Weil (2014). “Letter to a Priest”, p.65, Routledge

• Art has no immediate future, because all art is collective and there is no more collective life.

  Simone Weil

  Art, Art Is, Collectives

  Simone Weil (2002). “Gravity and Grace”, p.151, Psychology Press

• When science, art, literature, and philosophy are simply the manifestation of personality, they are on a level where glorious and dazzling achievements are possible, which can make a man's name live for thousands of years. But above this level, far above, separated by an abyss, is the level where the highest things are achieved. These things are essentially anonymous.

  Simone Weil

  Art, Philosophy, Science

  Simone Weil (2015). “Selected Essays, 1934-1943: Historical, Political, and Moral Writings”, p.13, Wipf and Stock Publishers

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