Elfriede Jelinek

"sewing in itself is already in the womens blood."

"When discussing Bach’s six Brandenburg concertos, the artistically aware person usually states, among other things, that when these masterpieces were composed, the stars were dancing in heavens. God and his dwelling place are always involved whenever these people talk about Bach."

"I have a feeling that you despise your body and that you only value art, you only value your argent needs, but eating and sleeping aren’t enough. You believe that your appearance is your enemy, and the only friend you have is music. Why look just in the mirror, look at your reflection, you’ll never find a better friend that yourself."

"There are photographs under the pistol, showing his mother genitals. These genitals make no perceptible impression on him, though it was through them that he first entered the world."

"I don’t know if it’s enough for a whole life, a man wants to enjoy many women, a man is different."

"The artist is lonesome and admits his solitude."

"Of course, art turns many people away for there has to be a limit. The limits between the gifted and the ungifted."

"For the first thing a proprietor learns, and painfully at that, is: Trust is fine, but control is better."

"There are no holidays for art; and that’s just fine with the artist."

"Sometimes, of course, art creates the suffering in the first place."

"Every child instinctively heads toward dirt and filth unless you pull it back."

"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!"