Elfriede Jelinek - Art Quotes

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I have a feeling that you despise your body and that you only value art, you only value your argent needs, but eating and sleeping aren't enough. You believe that your appearance is your enemy, and the only friend you have is music. Why look just in the mirror, look at your reflection, you'll never find a better friend that yourself.

Elfriede Jelinek

Sometimes, of course, art creates the suffering in the first place.

Elfriede Jelinek

Of course, art turns many people away for there has to be a limit. The limits between the gifted and the ungifted.

Elfriede Jelinek

There are no holidays for art; and that's just fine with the artist.

Elfriede Jelinek

The criteria of art are the imponderable, the immeasurable.

Elfriede Jelinek

Art and order, the relative that refuse to relate.

Elfriede Jelinek

The rules of art do not exist, because what makes art art is the fact that it obeys no rules at all.

Elfriede Jelinek