quotes on art

the true work of art is but a shadow of the divine perfection. (michelangelo)

kunst ist zwar nicht das brot, aber der wein des lebens. (jean paul)

art is either plagiarism or revolution. (paul gaugin)

the more horrifying this world becomes, the more art becomes abstract. (paul klee)

art teaches nothing, except the significance of life. (henry miller)

die kunst ist unnütz, aber der mensch kann auf das unnütze eben nicht verzichten. (eugene ionesco)

i am for an art that is political-erotical-mystical, that does something other than sit on its ass in a museum. (claes oldenburg)

kunst ist schön, macht aber viel arbeit. (karl valentin)

creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. art is knowing which ones to keep. (scott adams)

kunst kommt von können. käme es von wollen, so hieße sie wulst. (friedrich nietzsche)

an artist is someone who produces things that people don’t need to have but that he – for some reason – thinks it would be a good idea to give them. (andy warhol)

kunst ist nicht luxus, sondern notwendigkeit. (lyonel feininger)

art is never finished, only abandoned. (leonardo da vinci)

without art, the crudeness of reality would make the world unbearable. (george bernard shaw)

kunst kommt nicht von können, sondern von müssen. (arnold schönberg)

life imitates art far more than art imitates life. (oscar wilde)

the artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work. (emile zola)

kunst hat mit geschmack nichts zu tun. kunst ist nicht da, dass man sie „schmecke“. (max ernst)

vita brevis, ars longa. (hippokrates)

quotes on travel

one’s destination is never a place, but a new way of seeing things. (henry miller)

the journey not the arrival matters. (t. s. eliot)

reisen ist das einzig taugliche gegen die beschleunigung der zeit. (thomas mann)

the world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page. (st. augustine)

toren bereisen in fremden ländern die museen. weise gehen in die tavernen. (erich kästner)

travel is glamorous only in retrospect. (paul theroux)

like all great travelers, I have seen more than I remember, and remember more than I have seen. (benjamin disraeli)

auf reisen gleichen wir einem film, der belichtet wird. entwickeln wird ihn die erinnerung. (max frisch)

half the fun of travel is the esthetic of lostness. (ray bradbury)

i dislike feeling at home when i am abroad. (george bernard shaw)

erst die fremde lehrt uns, was wir an der heimat haben. (theodor fontane)

the traveler sees what he sees. the tourist sees what he has come to see. (g.k. chesterton)

never go on trips with anyone you do not love. (ernest hemingway)

nur reisen ist leben, wie umgekehrt das leben reisen ist. (jean paul)

i never travel without my diary. one should always have something sensational to read in the train. (oscar wilde)

als deutscher tourist im ausland steht man vor der frage, ob man sich anständig benehmen muss oder ob schon deutsche touristen dagewesen sind. (kurt tucholsky)

quotes on beauty

it is better to be beautiful than to be good, but it is better to be good than to be ugly. (oscar wilde)

everything has its beauty, but not everyone sees it (confucius)

ugliness is in a way superior to beauty because it lasts. (serge gainsbourg)

we live only to discover beauty. all else is a form of waiting. (kahlil gibran)

alles, was man mit liebe betrachtet, ist schön. (christian morgenstern)

beauty is not caused. it is. (emily dickinson)

though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not (ralph waldo emerson)

i’ve never met a person i couldn’t call a beauty. (andy warhol)

sahest du nie die schönheit im augenblicke des leidens, niemals hast du die schönheit gesehen. (friedrich schiller)

it is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness. (leo tolstoy)

i don’t like standard beauty – there is no beauty without strangeness. (karl lagerfeld)

jeder, der sich die fähigkeit erhält, schönes zu erkennen, wird nie alt werden. (franz kafka)

beauty of whatever kind, in its supreme development, invariably excites the sensitive soul to tears. (edgar allan poe)

the best part of beauty is that which no picture can express. (francis bacon)

for every moment of triumph, for every instance of beauty, many souls must be trampled. (hunter s. thompson)

beauty is the sole ambition, the exclusive goal of taste. (charles baudelaire)

the problem with beauty is that it’s like being born rich and getting poorer. (joan collins)

5 quotes by 5 people i adore

ein kleines geburtstagsgeschenk von mir für mich.

marilyn monroe:
i don’t mind living in a man’s world as long as i can be a woman in it.
dreaming about being an actress, is more exciting then being one.
i don’t know who invented high heels, but all women owe him a lot.
i am not interested in money. i just want to be wonderful.
what do I wear in bed? why, chanel no. 5, of course.

andy warhol:
don’t pay any attention to what they write about you. just measure it in inches.
i am a deeply superficial person.
i’ve never met a person i couldn’t call a beauty
i’m afraid that if you look at a thing long enough, it loses all of its meaning.
they always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.

chuck palahniuk:
if you don’t know what you want, you end up with a lot you don’t.
sometimes the past seems too big for the present to hold.
we all die. the goal isn’t to live forever, the goal is to create something that will.
what we don’t understand we can make mean anything.
a minute of perfection was worth the effort. a moment was the most you could ever expect from perfection.

coco chanel:
how many cares one loses when one decides not to be something but to be someone.
a women who doesn’t wear perfume has no future.
in order to be irreplaceable one must always be different.
the most courageous act is still to think for yourself. aloud.
a girl should be two things: classy and fabulous.

vladimir nabokov:
i would like to spare the time and effort of hack reviewers and, generally, persons who move their lips when reading.
genius is an african who dreams up snow.
my loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music.
caress the detail, the divine detail.
i confess, i do not believe in time.

alle zitate sind von brainyquote. darf ich den geneigten, noch nicht gesättigten leser auch auf meine liebsten oscar wilde zitate aufmerksam machen?

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quote of the day: when too perfect, lieber gott böse

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und: better to be profoundly superficial than to be superficially profound

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ich gelobe feierlich: nie wieder sinnloses, irremachendes auf dieser seite

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oscar wilde zitate

meine liebsten zitate vom gott derselben:

* we are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars

* i have the simplest tastes. i am always satisfied with the best

* consistency is the last refuge of the unimaginative

* only the shallow know themselves

* to love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance

* seriousness is the only refuge of the shallow

* it is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating

* fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months

* my own business always bores me to death; i prefer other people’s

* selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live

* one should always be in love. that is the reason one should never marry

* i can resist anything but temptation

* life is too important to be taken seriously

* there are many things that we would throw away if we were not afraid that others might pick them up

* ambition is a poor excuse for not having sense enough to be lazy

* the only thing that sustains one through life is the consciousness of the immense inferiority of everybody else, and this is a feeling that i have always cultivated

* there are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it

last but not least: quotation is a serviceable substitute for wit (…)