Bob Dylan Quotes About Art

Quotes about: Art

• In 1975,Bob Dylan was almost 10 years past his prime - and then he released the best album of his career, Blood on the Tracks. Written and recorded amid a painful divorce, Blood on the Tracks is proof that heartbreak makes great art - just as many of the albums that followed were the opposite.

  Bob Dylan

  Art, Divorce, Past

  Source: www.thedailybeast.com

• The purpose of art is to stop time.

  Bob Dylan

  Life, Time, Art

• In this age of fiberglass, I'm searching for a gem.

  Bob Dylan

  Art, Media, Age

  Song: Dirge, Album: Planet Waves, 1974

• Art is the perpetual motion of illusion. The highest purpose of art is to inspire. What else can you do? What else can you do for any one but inspire them?

  Bob Dylan

  Art, Inspire, Purpose

  Interview with Jonathan Cott, www.rollingstone.com. January 26, 1978.

• The dirt of gossip blows into my face and the dust rumors cover me. But if the arrow is straight and the point is slick, it can pierce through dust no matter how thick.

  Bob Dylan

  Art, Blow, Media

  Song: Restless Farewell, Album: The Times They Are A-Changin', 1964

• Don't know which one is worse, doing your own thing or just being cool.

  Bob Dylan

  Art, Media, Doing Your Own Thing

  Song: Gonna Change My Way of Thinking, Album: Slow Train Coming, 1979

• Everybody's wearing a disguise, to hide what they've got left behind their eyes.

  Bob Dylan

  Art, Eye, Media

  Song: Abandoned Love, Album: Biograph

• The good Samaritan, he's getting dressed, he's getting ready for the show. He's going to the carnival tonight on Desolation Row.

  Bob Dylan

  Art, Media, Tonight

  Bob Dylan (2016). “The Lyrics: 1961-2012”, p.181, Simon and Schuster

• Fortune or fame, you must pick one or the other, though neither of them are to be what they claim.

  Bob Dylan

  Art, Media, Entertainment

  Song: Just Like Tom Thumb's Blues, Album: Highway 61 Revisited, 1965

• They self-inflict punishment on their own broken lives, put their faith in their possessions, in their jobs, or their wives.

  Bob Dylan

  Art, Jobs, Self

  Song: Trouble in Mind

• Too much information about nothing.

  Bob Dylan

  Art, Media, Too Much Information

  Song: Someone's Got A Hold Of My Heart

• Jewels and binoculars hang from the head of the mule.

  Bob Dylan

  Art, Media, Jewels

  Song: Visions Of Johanna, Album: Blonde On Blonde, 1966

• Trying to create a next world war, he found a promoter who nearly fell off the floor, he said I never engaged in this kind of thing before, but yes I think it can be very easily done.

  Bob Dylan

  Art, War, Thinking

  Bob Dylan (2014). “The Lyrics: Since 1962”, p.216, Simon and Schuster

• Everything in New Orleans is a good idea. Bijou temple-type cottages and lyric cathedrals side by side. Houses and mansions, structures of wild grace. Italianate, Gothic, Romanesque, Greek Revival standing in a long line in the rain. Roman Catholic art. Sweeping front porches, turrets, cast-iron balconies, colonnades- 30-foot columns, gloriously beautiful- double pitched roofs, all the architecture of the whole wide world and it doesn't move.

  Bob Dylan

  Beautiful, Art, Moving

• Obscenity, who really cares. Propaganda, all is phony.

  Bob Dylan

  Art, Media, Care

  Song: It's Alright, Ma, Album: Bringing All Back Home, 1965

• You shouldn't let other people get your kicks for you.

  Bob Dylan

  Art, Media, People

  Song: Like A Rolling Stone

• Anger and jealousy's all that he sells us, he's content when you're under his thumb. Madmen oppose him, but your kindness throws him, to survive it you play deaf and dumb.

  Bob Dylan

  Art, Kindness, Media

  Song: No Time to Think, Album: Street Legal, 1978

• Some are masters of illusions, some are ministers of trade, all under the same delusion, all their beds unmade.

  Bob Dylan

  Art, Media, Bed

• You'll find out when you reach the top, you're on the bottom.

  Bob Dylan

  Art, Media, Entertainment

  Song: Idiot Wind, Album: Blood on the Tracks, 1975

• Disillusioned words like bullets bark as human gods aim for their mark.

  Bob Dylan

  Art, Media, Entertainment

  Song: It's Alright, Ma, Album: Bringing All Back Home, 1965

• Someone showed me a picture and I just laughed, dignity never been photographed.

  Bob Dylan

  Art, Media, Entertainment

  Song: Dignity

• Art can lead you to God. I think that's the purpose of everything. If it's not doing that, what's it doing? It's leading you the other way. It's certainly not leading you nowhere.

  Bob Dylan

  Faith, Art, Inspiration

• Art is a never-ending dance of illusions.

  Bob Dylan

  Art, Illusion, Art Is

• I've been sitting down studying the Art of Love. I think it will fit me like a glove.

  Bob Dylan

  Art, Thinking, Sitting Down

  Song: Thunder On The Mountain, Album: Modern Times, 2006

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