Henry Rollins Quotes About Art

Quotes about: Art

• Being an artist is dragging your innermost feelings out, giving a piece of yourself, no matter in which art form, in which medium.

  Henry Rollins

  Art, Giving, Feelings

• I don't really write for fun; it's not an enjoyable experience. For me, art, or whatever the hell it is I do, has always been a refuge from that which makes me want to tear my lungs out. That's why I play like I play; I'm not into entertainment.

  Henry Rollins

  Art, Fun, Writing

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• I'd like to rid myself of writing, to surrender, to release the venom. And hopefully at some point, I'll be a happy, well-adjusted guy and I'll have no need for all that 'art.'

  Henry Rollins

  Art, Writing, Guy

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• As far as I have been able to understand, the Japanese seem to keep things close to the vest. Friendly but remote and polite to the point of being invisible. It is in the music, literature, film and art that the Japanese really seem to express themselves.

  Henry Rollins

  Art, Friendly, Literature

• When I read that Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 had disappeared - a state-of-the-art Boeing 777, said to be an incredibly safe way to travel - I waited patiently for the chance to learn what happened.

  Henry Rollins

  Art, Safe, Boeing

• The arts in America exist in spite of America, not because of America.

  Henry Rollins

  Art, America, Spite

• We are misery-making machines! Homo sapiens has perfected the art of causing suffering. Pain is humankind's collective GDP.

  Henry Rollins

  Art, Pain, Gdp

  "Pain and Gain" by Henry Rollins, www.laweekly.com. March 6, 2014.

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