Kurt Vonnegut Quotes About Soul

Quotes about: Soul

• To practice any art, no matter how well or badly, is a way to make your soul grow. So do it.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Art, Practice, Soul

  "Finding Soul in LA: Five Creative Adventures in the City" by Roxie Sarhangi, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 18, 2014.

• 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.

• If you want to really hurt you parents, and you don't have the nerve to be gay, the least you can do is go into the arts. I'm not kidding. The arts are not a way to make a living. They are a very human way of making life more bearable. Practicing an art, no matter how well or badly, is a way to make your soul grow, for heaven's sake. Sing in the shower. Dance to the radio. Tell stories. Write a poem to a friend, even a lousy poem. Do it as well as you possible can. You will get an enormous reward. You will have created something.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Art, Hurt, Writing

• My soul knows my meat is doing bad things, and is embarrassed. But my meat just keeps right on doing bad, dumb things.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Dumb, Soul, Meat

  Kurt Vonnegut (2009). “Bluebeard: A Novel”, p.273, Dial Press

• Nobody will stop you from creating. Do it tonight. Do it tomorrow. That is the way to make your soul grow - whether there is a market for it or not! The kick of creation is the act of creating, not anything that happens afterward. I would tell all of you watching this screen: Before you go to bed, write a four line poem. Make it as good as you can. Don't show it to anybody. Put it where nobody will find it. And you will discover that you have your reward.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Life, Writing, Creativity

• You don't do art for any other reason than to help your soul grow.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Art, Soul, Helping

• 'You hate America, don't you?'
  'That would be as silly as loving it,' I said. 'It's impossible for me to get emotional about it, because real estate doesn't interest me. It's no doubt a great flaw in my personality, but I can't think in terms of boundaries. Those imaginary lines are as unreal to me as elves and pixies. I can't believe that they mark the end or the beginning of anything of real concern to a human soul. Virtues and vices, pleasures and pains cross boundaries at will.'

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Pain, Hate, Real

  "Mother Night". Book by Kurt Vonnegut, 1961.

• Nobody will stop you from creating. Do it tonight. Do it tomorrow. That is the way to make your soul grow.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Creating, Soul, Tonight

• The primary benefit of practicing any art, whether well or badly, is that it enables one's soul to grow.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Life, Art, Soul

• The practice of art isn't to make a living. It's to make your soul grow.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Inspirational, Art, Practice

• People should practice an art in order to make their souls grow and not to make money or become famous. Paint a picture. Write.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Art, Writing, Order

• But by accident, not by cunning calculation, books, because of their weight and texture, and because of their sweetly token resistance to manipulation, involve our hands and eyes, and then our minds and souls, in a spiritual adventure I would be very sorry for my grandchildren not to know about.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Spiritual, Sorry, Book

• I am beguiled by your physical beauty, and I am moved by how head-over-heels in love with books you are. And nowhere else have I found such thoughtful and literate reportage on the state of the American soul, as that soul makes itself known in the books we write.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Book, Writing, Thoughtful

• My soul seemed as foul as smoke from burning cat fur.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Cat, Soul, Fur

  Kurt Vonnegut (2009). “Cat's Cradle: A Novel”, p.27, Dial Press

• Poverty is a relatively mild disease for even a very flimsy American soul, but uselessness will kill strong and weak souls alike, and kill every time.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Strong, Soul, Disease

• I saw the destruction of Dresden. I saw the city before and then came out of an air-raid shelter and saw it afterward, and certainly one response was laughter. God knows, that's the soul seeking some relief.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Laughter, Air, Cities

  Kurt Vonnegut (2011). “A Man Without a Country”, p.3, Seven Stories Press

• Beware of "grandfalloons" and "foma". A "grandfalloon" is a proud and meaningless association of human beings. "Foma" are harmless truths intended to comfort simple souls.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Simple, Soul, Comfort

• The death of a library, any library, suggests that the community has lost its soul.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Community, Soul, Library

• So many people think that practicing an art is a good way to make a living. Practicing an art, no matter how well or badly, is a way to make your soul grow, for heaven's sake. I'm talking about singing in the shower, I'm talking about dancing to the radio, I'm talking about writing a poem to a friend.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Art, Writing, Thinking

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