Tom Robbins Quotes About Art

Quotes about: Art

• Well, Daddy, I used to believe that artists went crazy in the process of creating the beautiful works of art that kept society sane. Nowadays, though, artists make intentionally ugly art that’s only supposed to reflect society rather than inspire it. So I guess we’re all loony together now, loony rats in the shithouse of commercialism.

  Tom Robbins

  Beautiful, Art, Crazy

  Tom Robbins (2003). “Skinny Legs and All”, p.298, Bantam

• If you take any activity, any art, any discipline, any skill-take it and push it as far as it will go, push it beyond where it has ever been before, push it to the wildest edges of edges, then you force it into the realm of magic.

  Tom Robbins

  Art, Peace, Passion

  Tom Robbins (2003). “Even Cowgirls Get the Blues”, p.255, Bantam

• In the haunted house of life, art is the only stair that doesn't creak.

  Tom Robbins

  Art, House, Lovely

  Tom Robbins (2003). “Skinny Legs and All”, p.37, Bantam

• Time passed. Art came off the walls and became rituals. Ritual became religion. Religion spawned science. Science led to big business. And big business, if it continues on its present, mindless trajectory, could land those lucky enough to survive its ultimate legacy back into caves again.

  Tom Robbins

  Art, Wall, Land

• The trouble with you is that the only way you can communicate is through art. You’ve never learned to communicate your feelings to a man. You don’t even want to communicate in a relationship. You think that if you open up to love, you’ll lose your independence or your self-expression or creativity or whatever you call all that passionate, wonderful stuff that makes you feel alive inside.

  Tom Robbins

  Art, Love You, Creativity

  Tom Robbins (2003). “Skinny Legs and All”, p.234, Bantam

• You know a trillion times more about art than me. But I’ve learned that it isn’t necessary to know all that much. You just make what you wanna see, right? It’s a game, right? It’s like being paid for dreaming.

  Tom Robbins

  Dream, Art, Games

  Tom Robbins (2003). “Skinny Legs and All”, p.235, Bantam

• When we accept bad art because it's good politics, we're killing the swan to feed the chickens.

  Tom Robbins

  Art, Swans, Killing

  Tom Robbins (2006). “Wild Ducks Flying Backward”, p.167, Bantam

• A mockingbird... was heard to blend the songs of 32 different kinds of birds into a 10 minute performance, a virtuoso display that served no practical purpose, falling, therefore, into the realm of pure art.

  Tom Robbins

  Song, Art, Fall

• I don't have a very high opinion, actually, of the world of criticism - or the practice of criticism. I think I admire art criticism, criticism of painting and sculpture, far more than I do that of say films and books, literary or film criticism. But I don't much like the practice. I think there are an awful lot of bad people in it.

  Tom Robbins

  Art, Book, Thinking

• I like to think of myself as a fiction writer who liked art enough to write about it for a while, and then went on to his fiction.

  Tom Robbins

  Art, Writing, Thinking

  "Oral history interview with Tom Robbins". Interview with Martha Kingsbury, www.aaa.si.edu. March 3, 1984.

• Very few people can write in a crowd. This is a very solitary occupation. I have known people more talented than me who never made it. And the primary reason was always that they couldn't stand to be alone for several hours a day. Any writer worth anything has mastered the art. The art of solitude.

  Tom Robbins

  Art, Writing, People

• The most useful thing about art is it's uselessness.

  Tom Robbins

  Art, Useful Things, Art Is

• When a culture is being dumbed down as effectively as ours is, its narrative arts (literature, film, theatre) seem to vacillate between the brutal and the bland, sometimes in the same work.

  Tom Robbins

  Art, Theatre, Culture

  "The Syntax of Sorcery: An Interview with Tom Robbins". Interview with Tony Vigorito, realitysandwich.com. June 6, 2012.

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