John Gardner Art Quotations
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- All Art Quotes
- Sun Tzu
- Oscar Wilde
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Jerry Saltz
- Gerhard Richter
- Pablo Picasso
- William Shakespeare
- Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
- Niccolo Machiavelli
- Susan Sontag
- Seth Godin
- Henri Matisse
- Rajneesh
- Vincent Van Gogh
- Friedrich Nietzsche
- Henry David Thoreau
- John Ruskin
- Bruce Lee
- Andy Warhol
- Samuel Johnson
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Moving Quotes
In university courses we do exercises. Term papers, quizzes, final examinations are not meant for publication. We move through a course on Dostoevsky or Poe as we move through a mildly good cocktail party, picking up the good bits of food or conversation, bearing with the rest, going home when it comes to seem the reasonable thing to do. Art, at those moments when it feels most like art -- when we feel most alive, most alert, most triumphant -- is less like a cocktail party than a tank full of sharks.
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Suicide Quotes
To write with taste, in the highest sense, is to write [...] so that no one commits suicide, no one despairs; to write [...] so that people understand, sympathize, see the universality of pain, and feel strengthened, if not directly encouraged to live on. If there is good to be said, the writer should say it. If there is bad to be said, he should say it in a way that reflects the truth that, though we see the evil, we choose to continue among the living. The true artist [...] gets his sense of worth and honor from his conviction that art is powerful--