Quotes by Kornis Gyula

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The scientist's soul hangs on objective self-worth: on researched and discovered truth; also the soul of the artist: on the beauty that he realizes in his creations and which is the characteristic inner truth of the object. None of them looks at the usefulness of their work, but fights and creates for the sake of truth and beauty in order to realize and express these values. But usefulness is involuntarily woven into the work of both, one serves, enriches, broadens and enhances life with his thoughts and discoveries, the other with his artistic creations.

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The scientist wants to reflect reality as it is; the artist tries to shape reality in such a way that it corresponds to his ideals.

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Art also has the same spiritual source as science and religion: the longing for the eternal, the imperishable, the infinite.

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A certain distance from life belongs to the logical work of the scientist, to the intellectual attitude of the theoretician. He is forced to confront everything he wants to know, to extract it from direct experience, i.e. to objectify it.

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Nature never allows itself to be revealed to the curious eyes of the scientific researcher. But it is precisely this completely impenetrable veil that has its charm and charm, which continuously stimulates the scientist to further investigation, keeps his awareness of the problem in tension.

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In every great artistic work, some eternal idea, an absolute value takes objective form. The artist is also a seeker of truth, like the philosopher, but in his own way; he too sees and grasps the eternal essence, only his expression is different.

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In the artist's work, the unique always has a general meaning: it stands before us as a representative of the entire type. Therefore, the true artist never imitates and copies reality, that is, he does not depict the unique as such, as it is or was in its uniqueness, but with the help of his imagination, he shapes it in such a way that the general, characteristic traits inherent in it, representing the entire type, always appear.

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The scientist's thinking is the servant of reality when he adapts to it, the artist is the master of reality when he commands it with his imagination.

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Just as all great philosophers are also artists, so all true artists are also philosophers.