August Wilson Quotes About Art

Quotes about: Art

• All art is political in the sense that it serves someone's politics.

  August Wilson

  Art, Political, Art Is

• When I first started writing plays I couldn't write good dialogue because I didn't respect how black people talked. I thought that in order to make art out of their dialogue I had to change it, make it into something different. Once I learned to value and respect my characters, I could really hear them. I let them start talking.

  August Wilson

  Art, Writing, Character

• I am not a historian. I happen to think that the content of my mother's life - her myths, her superstitions, her prayers, the contents of her pantry, the smell of her kitchen, the song that escaped from her sometimes parched lips, her thoughtful repose and pregnant laughter - are all worthy of art.

  August Wilson

  Mother, Song, Art

  August Wilson (1997). “Seven Guitars”, p.10, Penguin

• All of art is a search for ways of being, of living life more fully.

  August Wilson

  Art, Live Life, Way

  "Theater Pros Debate Multi-Cultural Casts - Speech By Playwright August Wilson Ignites A Controversy At Conference" by Misha Berson, community.seattletimes.nwsource.com. July 07, 1996.

• I'm a black American playwright. I couldn't be anything else. I make my art out of black American culture; they're all cut out of the same cloth. That's who I am; that's who I write about.

  August Wilson

  Art, Writing, Cutting

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