The Piano Teacher
Elfriede Jelinek
Top 10 Best Quotes
“Every day, a piece of music, a short story, or a poem dies because its existence is no longer justified in our time. And things that were once considered immortal have become mortal again, no one knows them anymore. Even though they deserve to survive.”
“The first thing a proprietor learns, and painfully at that, is: Trust is fine, but control is better.”
“Art and order, the relatives that refuse to relate.”
“Sunday, the day for the language of leisure.”
“No art can possibly comfort HER then, even though art is credited with so many things, especially an ability to offer solace. Sometimes, of course, art creates the suffering in the first place.”
“most expensive originals have cheap imitations.”
“simple people. . . . listen to music with their hearts and enjoy it more than those who are spoiled, jaded, blase.”
“Strictly speaking, there are no holidays for art; art pursues you everywhere, and that's just fine with the artist.”
“the ignorant majority, which does however possess one thing in abundance: It is raring for a fight.”
“Her body is one big refrigerator, where Art is well stored.”
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Book Keywords:
solace, ignorant-majority, order, sunday, original, imitation, music, artist, suffering, art, enjoyment, ownership, leisure, language
