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

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Time has no divisions to mark its passage, there is never a thunder-storm or blare of trumpets to announce the beginning of a new month or year. Even when a new century begins it is only we mortals who ring bells and fire off pistols. – Thomas Mann

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It is a strange fact that freedom and equality, the two basic ideas of democracy, are to some extent contradictory. Logically considered, freedom and equality are mutually exclusive, just as society and the individual are mutually exclusive. – Thomas Mann

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Art is the unceasing effort to compete with the beauty of flowers – and never succeeding. – Gian Carlo Menotti

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When I make art, I think about its ability to connect with others, to bring them into the process. – Jim Hodges

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Modernity is the transient, the fleeting, the contingent it is one half of art, the other being the eternal and the immovable. – Charles Baudelaire

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Every work of art is an uncommitted crime. – Theodor Adorno

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