Franz Kafka Quotes About Art

Quotes about: Art

• There art two cardinal sins from which all others spring: Impatience and Laziness.

  Franz Kafka

  Patience, Art, Spring

• Art is for the artist is only suffering through which he releases himself for further suffering.

  Franz Kafka

  Art, Suffering, Release

  Franz Kafka (2014). “Metamorphosis: The original story by Franz Kafka as well as important analysis”, p.9, BoD – Books on Demand

• Picasso only registers the deformities which have not yet penetrated our consciousness. Art is a mirror which goes 'fast' like a watch - sometimes.

  Franz Kafka

  Art, Mirrors, Watches

• Our art is a way of being dazzled by truth: the light on the grotesquely grimacing retreating face is true, and nothing else.

  Franz Kafka

  Art, Truth, Light

  Franz Kafka (1954). “Wedding preparations in the country: and other posthumous prose writings. With notes by Max Brod”

• The dream reveals the reality which conception lags behind. That is the horror of life-the terror of art.

  Franz Kafka

  Dream, Art, Halloween

  Franz Kafka (1972). “The Metamorphosis”

• The Kafka paradox: art depends on truth, but truth, being indivisable, cannot know itself: to tell the truth is to lie. thus the writer is the truth, and yet when he speakes he lies.

  Franz Kafka

  Art, Lying, Telling The Truth

• Art flies around truth, but with the definite intention of not getting burnt. Its capacity lies in finding in the dark void a place where the beam of light can be intensely caught, without this having been perceptible before.

  Franz Kafka

  Art, Lying, Dark

  Franz Kafka (1991). “The Blue Octavo Notebooks”

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