Kurt Vonnegut Quotes About Painting

Quotes about: Painting

• Practice any art, music, singing, dancing, acting, drawing, painting, sculpting, poetry, fiction, essays, reportage, no matter how well or badly, not to get money and fame, but to experience becoming, to find out what's inside you, to make your soul grow.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Motivational, Art, Work

  "Kurt Vonnegut Once Sent This Amazing Letter To A High School" by Emily Thomas, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 6, 2014.

• I think... it is somehow very useful, and maybe even essential, for a fine artist to have to somehow make his peace on the canvas with all the things he cannot do. That is what attracts us to serious paintings, I think: that shortfall, which we might call 'personality,' or maybe even 'pain.'

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Pain, Struggle, Artist

  Kurt Vonnegut (1987). “Bluebeard: A Novel”, New York : Delacorte Press

• The painting was framed in a misty view of sky, sea, and valley. Newt's painting was small, black, and warty. It consisted of scratches made in a black, gummy impasto. The scratches formed a sort of spider's web, and I wondered if they might not be the sticky nets of human futility hung up on a moonless night to dry.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Night, Views, Sea

  Kurt Vonnegut (2009). “Cat's Cradle: A Novel”, p.164, Dial Press

• The paintings by dead men who were poor most of their lives are the most valuable pieces in my collection. And if an artist wants to really jack up the prices of his creations, may I suggest this: suicide.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Suicide, Artist, Men

  Kurt Vonnegut (2009). “Bluebeard: A Novel”, p.53, Dial Press

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