Art Quotes

"The writer should never be ashamed of staring. There is nothing that freaks out a freak observer more."

"Writing is a way of talking without being interrupted."

"It is the business of fiction writers to make the grotesque believable."

"I think it is looking rather hard at all the time that I write; that is what I think it is."

"The writer is only trying to enlarge people's sense of how things are."

"Distance between a writer and her work should be nonexistent."

"The novelist is an observer, first of all."

"One of the effects of false art is the hardening of the heart."

"A story is a way to say something that can't be said any other way."

"The use of the grotesque in fiction is often a sign that the writer is trying to get at something true."

"A good writer is one who invents truths."

"A writer is one who has taught themselves that their most urgent business is to reveal all they can discover in the endless depths of another human being."

"Art is the conversation between creator and witness."

"All creation is a kind of theft from the formless void."

"Art's about the only place we get to be honestly ourselves."

"Art is the only place where we can be completely truthful about being human."

"Art is communication from one lonely human to another."

"Art has something to do with the achievement of stillness in the midst of chaos."

"You cannot be an artist and see things as they are."

"Art is nature's means of achieving excellence."

"The artist is the one who invents new ways of seeing."

"Art is the search for the divine in the mundane."

"Art is the language of the soul."

"Art is the expression of the human soul."

"Art is the attempt to impose order on chaos and suffering."

"The primary function of art is to show us how to live."

"The novel is the only art form that can describe the real texture of human experience."

"Art is not therapy; it's a form of resistance."

"Trauma becomes art when it's transformed through consciousness."

"Art is the only record of what it felt like to be alive at a particular moment."