Edwidge Danticat Quotes About Art

Quotes about: Art

• Art is a luxury but also a necessity.

  Edwidge Danticat

  Art, Luxury, Art Is

  The Tavis Smiley Show, www.pbs.org. November 1, 2010.

• I think it is important to reach people through arts and literature, because then you establish a connection that's not an instant crisis.

  Edwidge Danticat

  Art, Thinking, People

• That has always been a strength of Haiti: Beyond crisis, it has beautiful art; it has beautiful music. But people have not heard about those as much as they heard about the coups and so forth. I always hope that the people who read me will want to learn more about Haiti.

  Edwidge Danticat

  Beautiful, Art, People

  "A Voice in Haiti’s Chorus". Interview with Elizabeth Gettelman, www.motherjones.com. 2010.

• That experience of touching down in a totally foreign place is like having a blank canvas: You begin with nothing, but stroke by stroke you build a life. This process requires everything great art requires-risk-tasking, hope, a great deal of imagination, all the qualities that are the building blocks of art. You must be able to dream something nearly impossible and toil to bring it into existence.

  Edwidge Danticat

  Dream, Art, Block

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