“Treat a work of art like a prince. Let it speak to you first.” — Arthur Schopenhauer Quote

Treat a work of art like a prince. Let it speak to you first.

For an author to write as he speaks is just as reprehensible as the opposite fault, to speak as he writes; for this gives a pedantic effect to what he says, and at the same time makes him hardly intelligible

We can regard our life as a uselessly disturbing episode in the blissful repose of nothingness.

To buy books would be a good thing if we also could buy the time to read them.

The greatest of follies is to sacrifice health for any other kind of happiness.

What art offers is space - a certain breathing room for the spirit.

The foundation of empire is art and science. Remove them or degrade them, and the empire is no more. Empire follows art and not vice versa as Englishmen suppose.

An artist is forced by others to paint out of his own free will.

The most momentous thing in human life is the art of winning the soul to good or evil.

I think in art, but especially in films, people are trying to confirm their own existences.