Elfriede Jelinek: Trending quotes

“The artist is lonesome and admits his solitude.”

“Every child instinctively heads toward dirt and filth unless you pull it back.”

“One suffers work, even if one enjoys doing it.”

“Better to wear worn shoes than to polish the boots of shop owner.”

“A sensitive person gets burned, like a delicate moth.”

“often these women marry or they are ruined some other way.”

“In the old days people had no time to harm the environment because they were busy doing harm to themselves, in the War, for instance.”

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

“The world would be a lot better off if it paid more attention to its philosophers and artists than to its own tiny egotistic spirit, which lacks an overview. People should place their belief in Beethoven and Socrates.”

“Vice is basically the love of failure.”

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

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

“He lies like a book. And he reads a lot of books.”

“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.”

“Nothing is natural, yet everything is as it is by nature.”

“I don’t know if it’s enough for a whole life, a man wants to enjoy many women, a man is different.”

“sewing in itself is already in the women's blood.”

“The criteria of art are the imponderable, the immeasurable.”

“Time stands still for man and woman alike, it is a good moment, because Time usually makes everything worse, poor people grow old, rich people can buy a little time but they can'hold it up for good, it always catches up with them. In the last analysis, Time is democratic.”