| The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996. |
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| NUMBER: | 40996 |
| QUOTATION: | 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 become as still as a picture. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | Robert Musil (1880–1942), Austrian author. Viennese Addenda [October 21, 1921], Gesammelte Werke in Neun Banden [Collected Works in Nine Volumes], ed. Adolf Frise, trans. by Donald C. Riechel, Rowohlt (1978).
Reviews of theater performances and art exhibitions, originally published in the Prager Presse [Prague Press].... |
| BIOGRAPHY: | Columbia Encyclopedia. |
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| | | The Columbia World of Quotations. Copyright © 1996 Columbia University Press. |
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