All still lifes are actually paintings of the world on the sixth day of creation, when God and the world were alone together, without man! Robert Musil Read Quote
Only in the most unusual cases is it useful to determine whether a book is good or bad; for it is just as rare for it to be one or the other. It is usually both. Robert Musil Read Quote
What is the use of good painting? We want a spell cast upon the optical part of our existence! We seldom really see the world, but when we do, we become as still as a picture. Robert Musil Read Quote
Anything that endures over time sacrifices its ability to make an impression. Robert Musil Read Quote
It is, all in all, a historic error to believe that the master makes the school; the students make it! Robert Musil Read Quote
The thought came to me that all one loves in art becomes beautiful. Beauty is nothing but the expression of the fact that something is being loved. Only thus could she be defined. Robert Musil Read Quote
The thoughts of my emotionally so disturbed days must be found again, shifted and developed further. Here and there something of the loose remarks I make must be used, but only when it finds my attention again. Robert Musil Read Quote
Philosophers are people who do violence, but have no army at their disposal, and so subjugate the world by locking it into a system. Robert Musil Read Quote
On this thin, scarcely real and yet so perceptible sensation the whole world hung as on a faintly trembling axis, and this in turn rested on the two people in the room. Robert Musil Read Quote
