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20 quotes by Robert Musil

Robert Musil (German: [ˈmuːzɪl] or [ˈmuːsɪl]; 6 November 1880 – 15 April 1942) was an Austrian writer. His unfinished novel The Man Without Qualities (German: Der Mann ohne Eigenschaften) is generally considered to be one of the most important modernist novels. However, the novel has not been widely read both because of its delayed publication and intricate, lengthy plot.
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If there is a sense of reality, there must also be a sense of possibility.

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Layer by layer art strips life bare.

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The difference between a healthy person and one who is mentally ill is the fact that the healthy one has all the mental illnesses, and the mentally... →

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Progress would be wonderful - if only it would stop.

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It is, all in all, a historic error to believe that the master makes the school; the students make it!

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Don't you know that every perfect life would mean the end of art?

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The thought came to me that all one loves in art becomes beautiful. Beauty is nothing but the expression of the fact that something is being loved.... →

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Today I start a diary; it is against my usual habbits, but out of a clearly felt need.

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Time, which runs through the world like an endless tinsel thread, seemed to pass through the centre of this room and through the centre of these... →

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A particularly fine head on a man usually means that he is stupid; particularly deep philosophers are usually shallow thinkers; in literature... →

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What is the use of good painting? We want a spell cast upon the optical part of our existence! We seldom really see the world, but when we do, we... →

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It will always be the same possibilities, in sum or on the average, that go on repeating themselves until a man comes along who does not value the... →

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All still lifes are actually paintings of the world on the sixth day of creation, when God and the world were alone together, without man!

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