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Milan Kundera Quotes

Milan Kundera quotes about art

Czechoslovakian Writer April 1, 1929

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Living for Sabina meant seeing. Seeing is limited by two borders: strong light, which blinds, and total darkness. Perhaps that was what motivated Sabina's distaste for all extremism. Extremes mean borders beyond which life ends, and a passion for extremism, in art and in politics, is a veiled longing for death. Milan Kundera
What? We feel aesthetic pleasure at a sonata by Beethoven and not at one with the same style and charm if it comes from one of our own contemporaries? Isn't that the height of hypocrisy? So then the sensation of beauty is not spontaneous, spurred by our sensibility, but instead is cerebral, conditioned by our knowing a date? No way around it: historical consciousness is so thoroughly inherent in our perception of art that this anachronism (a Beethoven piece written today) would be... Milan Kundera
...in our time art is encrusted with a noisy, opaque, logorrhea of theory that prevents a work from coming into direct, media free, non-interpreted contact with its viewer (its reader, its listener) Milan Kundera
Art must always stand guard against stirring emotions that lie outside the aesthetic: sexual arousal, terror, disgust, shock. Milan Kundera
You can understand nothing about art, particularly modern art, if you do not understand that imagination is a value in itself. Milan Kundera
Milan Kundera quote: "Art is the human disposition of sensible or intelligible..."
Art is the human disposition of sensible or intelligible matter for an esthetic end. Milan Kundera
Milan Kundera quote: "Art arises from sources other than logic." (p.32)"
Art arises from sources other than logic." (p.32) Milan Kundera

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