Gunter Grass Art Quotations

Art is accusation, expression, passion. Art is a fight to the finish between black charcoal and white paper.

Art is uncompromising, and life is full of compromises.

No idea stays pure. Even the flowering of art isn't pure. And the sun has spots.

Art is so wonderfully irrational, exuberantly pointless, but necessary all the same. Pointless and yet necessary, that's hard for a puritan to understand.

Art is hard for a puritan to understand.

Art is accusation, expression, passion. Art is black charcoal crushing white paper.