Quote #3

Love and art do not embrace what is beautiful but what is made beautiful by this embrace.

More from Karl Kraus

  1. What is the Ninth Symphony compared to a Tin Pan Alley hit played on a hurdy-gurdy and a memory?
  2. An aphorism can never be the whole truth; it is either a half-truth or a truth-and-a-half.
  3. There are women who are not beautiful but only look that way.
  4. Sexuality poorly repressed unsettles some families; well repressed, it unsettles the whole world.
  5. The esthete stands in the same relation to beauty as the pornographer stands to love, and the politician stands to life.
  6. My unconscious knows more about the consciousness of the psychologist than his consciousness knows about my unconscious.
  7. War: first, one hopes to win; then one expects the enemy to lose; then, one is satisfied that he too is suffering; in the end, one is surpr…
  8. Science is spectral analysis. Art is light synthesis.

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