Quotes About Art

Bourdieu argued that a dominant class enforces rules about what is and is not acceptable. It defines good art, good food, good books—and creates an exclusionary vocabulary for describing them. "Taste classifies, and it classifies the classifier," he famously wrote.

We photograph things in order to drive them out of our minds. My stories are a way of shutting my eyes.

I am always trying to convey something that can't be conveyed, to explain something which is inexplicable, to tell about something I have in my bones, something which can be expressed only in the bones.

My job is unbearable to me because it conflicts with my only desire and my only calling, which is literature. Since I am nothing but literature and can and want to be nothing else, my job will never take possession of me, it may, however, shatter me completely, and this is by no means a remote possibility.

I have no literary interests; I am made of literature. I am nothing else and cannot be anything else.

Art flies around truth, but with the definite intention of not getting burnt. Its capacity lies in finding in the dark void a place where the beam of light can be intensely caught, without this having been perceptible before.

In a way, I was safe writing

Writer speaks a stench.

I am nothing but literature, and can and want to be nothing else.

san otkriva stvarnost za kojom predstava zaostaje.strashno potiche od zhivota – potresno od umetnosti.

Writing is a sweet, wonderful reward…

Llegué hasta alimentar el deseo infantil de no retornar a la obra nunca más, sino instalarme aquí en la proximidad de la entrada y pasar mi vida en la contemplación de ella, no perderla de vista y hallar mi felicidad en la comprobación de la firmeza con que la obra me habría protegido de estar yo en ella.

Writing, when it springs from within, is like giving birth, and the child is covered in mucus

Sand: The French are all actors; but only the weakest among them act in the theater[

En cierta forma cuando escribo estoy a salvo (p. 52)

Toute littérature est assaut contre la frontière.

Mahkeme, inanc?ndan asla döndürülemez. Burada bir tuvale yan yana bütün yarg?çlar?n resmini yapsam ve siz de kendinizi bu tuvale savunsan?z, gerçek bir mahkeme önündekine oranla daha çok ÅŸans?n?z olur.

I saw 'The Wild Duck' at the Belvoir St. Theatre in Sydney, and it was one of the best pieces of theatre I'd ever seen.

These days I love watching Billy Wilder. I'm not saying the arthouse stuff is self-serious, but I needed to get out of my head a little bit and not treat films so seriously.

In our own time it has been seen... that simple children, roughly brought up in the wilderness, have begun to draw by themselves, impelled by their own natural genius, instructed solely by the example of these beautiful paintings and sculptures of Nature.

I love books, I love art, I'm a fanatic nature and wildlife person. People assume I'm a political animal, power hungry, wanting to run for office. And anyone who knows me knows that none of that's true.

I've been making pieces dealing with environmental issues at least since 2004; I mean, I did stuff for the Sierra Club and the Alaskan Wildlife Refuge even back in the 1990s. But somewhere a little after 2004, Hummer hits me up. I'm like, 'Are you kidding me?'

I don't write things that are wildly abstractly atonal.

Stage and film are just two wildly different animals. Why compare the two?