Anton Webern Quotes

Comprehensibility is the highest law of all. Unity must be there. There must be means of ensuring it. All the things familiar to us from primitive life must also be used in works of art.

Anton Webern

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• Politics is the art of the next best.

  

  Otto von Bismarck
  • Art
  • Best
  • Politics

• I'm always trying to find 'connections' between things. That art is the juxtaposition of a lot of things that seem unrelated but add up to something recognizable.

  

  Pat Metheny
  • Up
  • Trying
  • Art

• Some painters transform the sun into a yellow spot, others transform a yellow spot into the sun.

  

  Pablo Picasso
  • Art
  • Sun
  • Yellow

• I work in the film business, where schmoozing is an art form, lunch hour lasts from 12:30 until 3, and every meeting takes an hour whether there's an hour's worth of business or not.

  

  R. J. Cutler
  • Work
  • Art
  • Business

• In an artwork you're always looking for artistic decisions, so an ashtray is perfect. An ashtray has got life and death.

  

  Damien Hirst
  • Life
  • Art
  • Death

• Translation is the art of failure.

  

  Umberto Eco
  • Art
  • Failure
  • Translation

• Art, freedom and creativity will change society faster than politics.

  

  Victor Pinchuk
  • Art
  • Society
  • Freedom

• Graffiti's always been a temporary art form. You make your mark and then they scrub it off.

  

  Banksy
  • Art
  • You
  • Graffiti

• We long for unity, but are unwilling to pay the price. But of course, true unity cannot be so easily won. It starts with a change in attitudes - a broadening of our minds, and a broadening of our hearts.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Long
  • True
  • Unity

• The hardest part of doing anything creatively is just getting up and doing.  Once I get out of bed and get into my art room, I start painting.  I'm there.  And I'm doing it.

  

  Frances Bean Cobain
  • Up
  • Art
  • Painting

• Academic training in beauty is a sham. We have been deceived... The beauties of the Parthenon, Venuses, Nymphs, Narcissuses are so many lies. Art is not the application of a canon of beauty but what the instinct and the brain can conceive beyond any canon.

  

  Pablo Picasso
  • Art
  • Brain
  • Training

• I chose to paint because the medium as such has a particular meaning. It is almost synonymous with what is popularly viewed as Art - art with a capital A-with all the glory, the piety, and the authority that it commands.

  

  Hans Haacke
  • Art

• Nothing is art if it does not come from nature.

  

  Antoni Gaudi
  • Art
  • Nature

• Like everything genuine, its inner life guarantees its truth. All works of art created by truthful minds without regard for the work's conventional exterior remain genuine for all times.

  

  Franz Marc
  • Life
  • Work
  • Art

• I started to make a study of the art of war and revolution and, whilst abroad, underwent a course in military training. If there was to be guerrilla warfare, I wanted to be able to stand and fight with my people and to share the hazards of war with them.

  

  Nelson Mandela
  • People
  • Art
  • War

• I've always loved to paint - I was studying to do an art degree when I was approached to become a model - and I've being doing some design work as well. I also love just having a quiet time, sitting in my little library at home in Brooklyn and reading or watching documentaries or listening to music.

  

  Alek Wek
  • Time
  • Work
  • Music

• In animation, what's wonderful is that when you start to work with multiple nationalities, the common language becomes a visual language rather than a spoken language, which blends beautifully with the art form.

  

  Chris Meledandri
  • Work
  • Art

• The art of doing mathematics consists in finding that special case which contains all the germs of generality.

  

  David Hilbert
  • Art

• Often people display a curious respect for a man drunk, rather like the respect of simple races for the insane... There is something awe-inspiring in one who has lost all inhibitions.

  

  F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • People
  • Man
  • Respect

• Man's shortcomings and sins are all due to substance of the body and not to its form, while all his merits are exclusively due to his form.

  

  Maimonides
  • Man
  • Body
  • Substance

• Solitude is pleasant. Loneliness is not.

  

  Anna Neagle
  • Solitude

• There is no passion to be found playing small - in settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living.

  

  Nelson Mandela
  • Life
  • Small
  • Passion

• . . .this prayer I make, Knowing that Nature never did betray The heart that loved her; 't is her privilege, Through all the years of this our life, to lead From joy to joy: for she can so inform The mind that is within us, so impress With quietness and beauty, and so feed With lofty thoughts, that neither evil tongues, Rash judgments, nor the sneers of selfish men, Nor greetings where no kindness is, nor all The dreary intercourse of daily life, Shall e'er prevail against us, or disturb Our cheerful faith, that all which we behold Is full of blessings.

  

  William Wordsworth
  • Heart
  • Nature
  • Prayer

• Comprehensibility is the highest law of all. Unity must be there. There must be means of ensuring it. All the things familiar to us from primitive life must also be used in works of art.

  

  Anton Webern
  • Art
  • Mean
  • Unity