Quote by Thomas Mann
An art whose medium is language will always show a high degree of

An art whose medium is language will always show a high degree of critical creativeness, for speech is itself a critique of life: it names, it characterizes, it passes judgment, in that it creates. – Thomas Mann

Other quotes by Thomas Mann

The only religious way to think of death is as part and parcel of life. – Thomas Mann

Category:
Death
Read Quote

All interest in disease and death is only another expression of interest in life. – Thomas Mann

Category:
Death
Read Quote

Solitude gives birth to the original in us, to beauty unfamiliar and perilous – to poetry. But also, it gives birth to the opposite: to the perverse, the illicit, the absurd. – Thomas Mann

Category:
Beauty
Read Quote
Other Quotes from
Art
category

Life is short, the art long. – Hippocrates

Category:
Art

The works must be conceived with fire in the soul but executed with clinical coolness. – Joan Miro

Category:
Art

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

Category:
Art

What is art? Nature concentrated. – Honore de Balzac

Category:
Art

Random Quotes

Is it not odd that the only generous person I ever knew, who had money to be generous with, should be a stockbroker. – Percy Bysshe Shelley

Category:
Money

Courtesies cannot be borrowed like snow shovels; you must have some of your own. – John Wanamaker

Category:
Manners

Any life is made up of a single moment, the moment in which a man finds out, once and for all, who he is. – Jorge Luis Borges

Category:
Life

One will never again look at a birch tree, after the Robert Frost poem, in exactly the same way. – Paul Muldoon

Category:
Poetry