Karl Kraus Quotes About Style

• Es propio del idealismo consolarse por la pérdida de algo viejo con la capacidad de asomarse a algo nuevo.

  Karl Kraus

  Loss, Style, Something New

• I have decided many a stylistic problem first by my head, then by heads or tails.

  Karl Kraus

  Heads Or Tails, Style, Firsts

  Karl Kraus (1976). “Half-truths & one-and-a-half truths: selected aphorisms”

• Sólo domino el lenguaje de los demás. El mío hace conmigo lo que quiere.

  Karl Kraus

  Style, Doe, Want

  Karl Kraus (1976). “Half-truths & One-and-a-half Truths: Selected Aphorisms”

• A good stylist should have narcissistic enjoyment as he works. He must be able to objectivize his work to such an extent that he catches himself feeling envious and has to jog his memory to find that he is himself the creator. In short, he must display that highest degree of objectivity which the world calls vanity.

  Karl Kraus

  Memories, Vanity, Objectivity

  Karl Kraus (1976). “Half-truths & one-and-a-half truths: selected aphorisms”

• Nothing is more horrible than my self in the mirror of hysteria. Nothing is more vulgar than my style in the hands of another. Toimitate me is to punish me.

  Karl Kraus

  Mirrors, Self, Hands

  Karl Kraus (1976). “Half-truths & one-and-a-half truths: selected aphorisms”

• Let my style capture all the sounds of my time. This should make it an annoyance to my contemporaries. But later generations should hold it to their ears like a seashell in which there is the music of an ocean of mud.

  Karl Kraus

  Music, Ocean, Style

  Karl Kraus (1976). “Half-truths & one-and-a-half truths: selected aphorisms”

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