“After all, people with a herd instinct hold mediocrity in high esteem. They praise it as having great value. They believe they are strong because they are the majority. The middling level has no terrors, no anxieties. They huddle together, indulging in the illusion of warmth. If you’re alone with nothing, and certainly not yourself. And how content they are with that state of affairs!”
“For the first thing a proprietor learns, and painfully at that, is: Trust is fine, but control is better.”
Elfriede Jelinek
“Sometimes, of course, art creates the suffering in the first place.”
Elfriede Jelinek
“Every child instinctively heads toward dirt and filth unless you pull it back.”
Elfriede Jelinek
“The artist is lonesome and admits his solitude.”
Elfriede Jelinek
“Of course, art turns many people away for there has to be a limit. The limits between the gifted and the ungifted.”
Elfriede Jelinek