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One bites into the brass mouthpiece of his wooden cudgel, and the other blows his cheeks out on a French horn. Do you call that Art?


Franz Schubert

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FRANZ KAFKA The trouble for today's footballers is they have too many distractions. We used to get our old p...
FRANZ BECKENBAUER Objects speak: objects possess will and form, why should we wish to interrupt them! We have nothing ...
FRANZ MARC The two designs are completely different. The first is totally futuristic, the second is more classi...
FRANZ BECKENBAUER My doctor asked me if I smoked, and I said only when I'm working, golfing, or drinking. Then I r...
DENNIS FRANZ I am not interested in considering another TV series. This one was a wonderful experience which will...
DENNIS FRANZ Persons who write a 10,000 word document and call it a brief
FRANZ KAFKA Books are a narcotic
FRANZ KAFKA In argument similes are like songs in love; they describe much, but prove nothing.
FRANZ KAFKA You may object that it is not a trial at all; you are quite right, for it is only a trial if I recog...
FRANZ KAFKA I do not hope for victory
FRANZ KAFKA The experience of life consists of the experience which the spirit has of itself in matter and as ma...
FRANZ KAFKA From the true antagonist, illimitable courage is transmitted to you
FRANZ KAFKA Writing is a sweet, wonderful reward
FRANZ KAFKA All knowledge, the totality of all questions and all answers is contained in the dog
FRANZ KAFKA We are sinful not merely because we have eaten of the tree of knowledge, but also because we have no...
FRANZ KAFKA Evil is whatever distracts.
FRANZ KAFKA It is impossible to imagine a more complete fusion with nature than that of the Gypsy.
FRANZ LISZT Furthermore, the study of the present surroundings is insufficient: the history of the people, the i...
FRANZ BOAS Music embodies feeling without forcing it to contend and combine with thought, as it is forced in mo...
FRANZ LISZT If the French were German in their essence, then how the Germans would admire them!
FRANZ KAFKA The uneducated person perceives only the individual phenomenon, the partly educated person the rule,...
FRANZ GRILLPARZER How pathetically scanty my self-knowledge is compared with, say, my knowledge of my room. There is n...
FRANZ KAFKA Like everything genuine, its inner life guarantees its truth. All works of art created by truthful m...
FRANZ MARC Those who want to row on the ocean of human knowledge do not get far, and the storm drives those out...
FRANZ GRILLPARZER The indestructible is one: it is each individual human being and, at the same time, it is common to ...
FRANZ KAFKA