Heinrich Böll citáty
Heinrich Böll
Dátum narodenia: 21. december 1917
Dátum úmrtia: 16. júl 1985
Heinrich Böll , bol nemecký spisovateľ a prekladateľ. Patrí medzi najvýznamnejších spisovateľov povojnovej literatúry v Nemecku. V rokoch 1971 – 1974 bol prezidentom Medzinárodného PEN klubu. V roku 1972 mu, ako prvému nemeckému autorovi, udelili Nobelovu cenu za literatúru.
Citáty Heinrich Böll
„Creativity is not limited to people practising one of the traditional forms of art, and even in the case of artists, creativity is not confined to the exercise of their art. Each one of us has a creative potential, which is hidden by competitiveness and success-aggression. To recognize, explore and develop this potential is the task of the School. Creation – whether it be a painting, sculpture, symphony or novel – involves not merely talent, intuition, powers of imagination and application, but also the ability to shape material that could be expanded to other socially relevant spheres.“
— Heinrich Böll
Joseph Beuys and Heinrich Böll (1972), cited in: Caroline Tisdall, Joseph Beuys, exh.cat., Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York 1979. p. 278.
„One ought to go too far, in order to know how far one can go.“
— Heinrich Böll
"Die Freiheit der Kunst", speech delivered at Wuppertal on September 24, 1966; cited from Cultura 21 magazine [http://www.cultura21.de/magazin/denkanstosse/d20050930a.html], September 30, 2005. Translation: Walter Laqueur Germany Today: A Personal Report (London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1985) p. 130.
„A family without a black sheep is not a typical family.“
— Heinrich Böll
"Die schwarzen Schafe" (1951); cited from 1947 bis 1951 (Köln: F. Middelhauve, 1963) p. 478. Translation: "Black Sheep", in Leila Vennewitz (trans.) The Stories of Heinrich Böll (Evanston: Northwestern University Press, 1995) p. 408.
