Mattias Klum famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Poems very seldom consist of poetry and nothing else; and pleasure can be derived also from their other ingredients. I am convinced that most readers, when they think they are admiring poetry, are deceived by inability to analyse their sensations, and that they are really admiring, not the poetry of the passage before them, but something else in it, which they like better than poetry.
Art does not exist for politics, or for instruction- it exists primarily for pleasure, or it is nothing.
As the Internet breaks down the last justifications for a professional class of politicians, it also builds up the tools for replacing them.
There's nothing an artist needs more - even more than excellent tools and stamina - than a deadline.
If the only tool we use to analyse what's valuable is a price tag, then those things that don't have price tags begin to look like they have no value.
And when reality denies you the tools you need for survival you grab them from wherever you can.
It is not enough to wear an ornamental cross as a pretty decoration.
When the journey's over/There'll be time enough to sleep.
The best technology is aimed far enough in the future that it stands out, but close enough to the present that it blends in.
Embellishment is an irresistible and consuming impulse, going back to the beginnings of human history. ... Probably the strongest motivating force is the simplest: the inability of almost everyone to ever leave well enough alone.

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