Art · Skopia

Quotes

117

I have erected a monument more lasting than bronze.

23 BC

★ 7.1

Treatise · Philosophical literature

The most perfect of all works of art is true political freedom.

Friedrich Schiller

1794

★ 7.0

The greatness of art, like poetry or music, is that it is totally unnecessary.

2011

★ 6.9

Painting is not done to decorate apartments. It is an instrument of war for attack and defense against the enemy.

1945

★ 5.4

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Books

25

In Search of Lost Time (set of 6)

1922★ 9.7

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

1916★ 8.7

Buddenbrooks

1901★ 8.0

The Savage Detectives

1998★ 7.7

The Lives of the Artists

1550★ 7.3

The Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy

Jacob Burckhardt

1860★ 7.3

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Art

3

Fountain

1917★ 9.5

Melencolia I

1514★ 8.6

The Archduke Leopold Wilhelm in his Picture Gallery in Brussels

David Teniers the Younger

1647★ 5.9