Ralph Ellison Quotes About Art

Quotes about: Art

• God is love, I said, but art's the possibility of forms, and shadows are the source of identity.

  Ralph Ellison

  Art, Shadow, Identity

  Ralph Ellison (2010). “Three Days Before the Shooting . . .”, p.987, Modern Library

• If social protest is antithetical to art, what then shall we make of Goya, Dickens, and Twain?

  Ralph Ellison

  Art, Goya, Social

  Ralph Ellison, Maryemma Graham, Amritjit Singh (1995). “Conversations with Ralph Ellison”, p.8, Univ. Press of Mississippi

• The blues is an art of ambiguity, an assertion of the irrepressibly human over all circumstances, whether created by others or by one's own human failing.

  Ralph Ellison

  Music, Art, Failing

  Ralph Ellison (2003). “The Collected Essays of Ralph Ellison”, Random House LLC

• The blues is an art of ambiguity, an assertion of the irrepressibly human over all circumstance whether created by others or by one's own human failings. They are the only consistent art in the United States which constantly remind us of our limitations while encouraging us to see how far we can actually go. When understood in their more profound implication, they are a corrective, an attempt to draw a line upon man's own limitless assertion.

  Ralph Ellison

  Music, Art, Men

  Ralph Ellison (2011). “Shadow and Act”, p.245, Vintage

• We don't all dig Shakespeare uniformly, or even 'Little Red Riding Hood.' The understanding of art depends finally upon one's willingness to extend one's humanity and one's knowledge of human life.

  Ralph Ellison

  Art, Understanding, Humanity

  Ralph Ellison, Maryemma Graham, Amritjit Singh (1995). “Conversations with Ralph Ellison”, p.13, Univ. Press of Mississippi

• Life is as the sea, art a ship in which man conquers life's crushing formlessness, reducing it to a course, a series of swells, tides and wind currents inscribed on a chart.

  Ralph Ellison

  Crush, Art, Men

  Ralph Ellison (2011). “The Collected Essays of Ralph Ellison: Revised and Updated”, p.133, Modern Library

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