Josef K Quotes

The only way to succeed is to make people hate you. — Josef Von Sternberg

Shadow conceals - light reveals. To know what to reveal and what to conceal, and in what degrees to do this, is all there is to art. — Josef Von Sternberg

A painter paints because he has no time not to paint. — Josef Albers

Happiness is essentially a gift; we are not the forgers of our own felicity. — Josef Pieper

To celebrate a festival means: to live out, for some special occasion and in an uncommon manner, the universal assent to the world as a whole. — Josef Pieper

The biggest lesson in photography is that from negative we make a positive — Josef Koudelka

It was my family that wanted me to be a teacher. That was safe, you see. To be a painter was terrible. — Josef Albers

Traditionally art is to create and not to revive. To revive: leave that to the historians, who are looking backward. — Josef Albers

What has been said does not simply belong to us. — Josef Albers

Color is like cooking. The cook puts in more or less salt, that's the difference! — Josef Albers

Justice is a habit (habitus), whereby a man renders to each one his due with constant and perpetual will. — Josef Pieper

Art is concerned with the HOW and not the WHAT. — Josef Albers

When there's a person, there's a problem. When there's no person, there's no problem.
Josef Stalin — Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin

I love the life of objects. When the children go to bed, the objects come to life. I like to tell stories about the life of inanimate objects. — Josef Sudek

I think Kandinsky and I were very near friends. — Josef Albers

Artists hold out the mirror to the bruises on the face of the world. — Josef Skvorecky

Every perception of color is an illusion, we do not see colors as they really are. In our perception they alter one another. — Josef Albers

A thing is never seen as it really is. — Josef Albers

Someone must have slandered Josef K., for one morning, without having done anything truly wrong, he was arrested. — Franz Kafka

Maybe because I do not like the idea of my grandmother and someone like Josef still coexisting in this world. — Jodi Picoult

The finished product is not finished when the actor is. The work is completed by a pair of shears. — Josef Von Sternberg

Wonder does not make one industrious, for to feel astonished is to be disturbed. — Josef Pieper

If I am dissatisfied, it's simply because good photos are few and far between. A good photo is a miracle. — Josef Koudelka

Josef: Why haven't you killed them?
Mick: There's more than one suspect..
Josef: So kill them all. — Rachel Hawthorne

I would like to see everything, look at everything, I want to be the view itself. — Josef Koudelka

Mick: What do you remember from when you were four?
Josef: Well it was 1603 Mick, it's reasonable to be a little hazy. — Rachel Hawthorne

If a picture is good, it tells many different stories. — Josef Koudelka

Therefore art means: you have to believe, to have faith, that is, cultivate vision. — Josef Albers

[T]o know means to reach the reality of existing things[.] — Josef Pieper

He goes on reading, and remembers nothing. So what has this stranger come to tell him? To remind him that he used to live here under Josef's name? — Milan Kundera

I want color and form to have contradictorily functions. — Josef Albers

One line plus one line results in many meanings. — Josef Albers