Josef K Quotes

#1. Just as Josef K, the protagonist of Kafka's 'The Trial,' awoke one day to discover that he had become part of some unfathomable legal carnival, we, too are frequently waking to discover that the rules of the digital game have once again profoundly changed.

Evgeny Morozov

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

Franz Kafka

#3. [T]o know means to reach the reality of existing things[.]

Josef Pieper

#4. Surrender to sensuality paralyzes the powers of the moral person.

Josef Pieper

#5. I have to shoot three cassettes of film a day, even when not 'photographing', in order to keep the eye in practice.

Josef Koudelka

#6. There is something that falls short of perfection in every book, without exception, something influenced by the age, even something ridiculous; just like everyone, without exception, has weaknesses.

Josef Skvorecky

#7. That's what's so inspiring about music, that it excites and conveys all the wealth of a man's thoughts and at the same time creates a ravishing human solidarity.

Josef Bor

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

Josef Albers

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

Josef Albers

#10. Only the silent hear and those who do not remain silent do not hear.

Josef Pieper

#11. If you don't do it my way, I suggest you commit suicide.

Josef Albers

#12. To be just meaans to recognize the other as other; it means to give acknowledgment even where one cannot love ... A just man is just, therefore, because he sanctions another person in his very separateness and helps him to receive his due.

Josef Pieper

#13. Wonder does not make one industrious, for to feel astonished is to be disturbed.

Josef Pieper

#14. Being precedes Truth, and ... Truth precedes the Good.

Josef Pieper

#15. I believe that we are going to get along very well with him [Josef Stalin] and the Russian people - very well indeed.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

#16. Whether something 'has color' or not is as hard to define verbally as are such questions as, 'What is music?' or 'What is musical?

Josef Albers

#17. I want color and form to have contradictorily functions.

Josef Albers

#18. How do you do it?" I ask softly, and I'm no longer asking just about her and Josef but about myself as well. "How do you get up every morning and not remember?

Jodi Picoult

#19. I believe that photography loves banal objects, and I love the life of objects.

Josef Sudek

#20. The aim of our studies is to prove that color is the most relative means of artistic expression, that we never really perceive what color is physically.

Josef Albers

#21. Music is painted upon a canvas of silence. Mozart used to say, "Silence is the greatest effect in music.

Josef Lhevinne

#22. In visual perception a color is almost never seen as it really is - as it physically is. This fact makes color the most relative medium in art.

Josef Albers

#23. I was always, luckily, only a reader.

Josef Skvorecky

#24. Modern religious teaching have little or nothing to say about the place of prudence in life or in the hierarchy of virtues.

Josef Pieper

#25. Ah, the creative process is the same secret in science as it is in art. They are all the same absolutely.

Josef Albers

#26. The Jewish people, no matter where they are, they become the best in the world.

Josef Mengele

#27. I paint the way I spread butter on pumpernickel.

Josef Albers

#28. To build children you must first be built yourself. Otherwise, you'll seek children out of animal needs, or loneliness, or to patch the holes in yourself. Your task as a parent is to produce not another self, another Josef, but something higher. It's to produce a creator.

Irvin D. Yalom

#29. In order to use color effectively it is necessary to recognize that color deceives continually.

Josef Albers

#30. I start from experience and read ... always between polarities - loud and not-loud, young and old, spring and winter. If I can make black and white behave together instead of shooting at each other only, I feel proud.

Josef Albers

#31. The finished product is not finished when the actor is. The work is completed by a pair of shears.

Josef Von Sternberg

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

Rachel Hawthorne

#33. I went to the Academy and studied with Stuck who was then a big man. But didn't interest me. I didn't know that before me there was Kandinsky and Klee who had also studied with Stuck. He had a good name at that time.

Josef Albers

#34. Leisure is only possible when we are at one with ourselves. We tend to overwork as a means of self-escape, as a way of trying to justify our existence.

Josef Pieper