Paul Auster Quotes About Understanding

Quotes about: Understanding

• For the first time in his life, he stopped worrying about results, and as a consequence the terms “success” and “failure” had suddenly lost their meaning for him. The true purpose of art was not to create beautiful objects, he discovered. It was a method of understanding, a way of penetrating the world and finding one’s place in it, and whatever aesthetic qualities an individual canvas might have were almost an incidental by-product of the effort to engage oneself in this struggle, to enter into the thick of things.

  Paul Auster

  Beautiful, Art, Struggle

  Paul Auster (2010). “Moon Palace: A Novel (Penguin Ink)”, p.131, Penguin

• Our lives don't really belong to us, you see -- they belong to the world, and in spite of our efforts to make sense of it, the world is a place beyond our understanding.

  Paul Auster

  Effort, Understanding, World

  Paul Auster, James M. Hutchisson (2013). “Conversations with Paul Auster”, p.14, Univ. Press of Mississippi

• Some like to think that a keen appreciation of art can actually make us better people - more just, more moral, more sensitive, more understanding. Perhaps that is true - in certain rare, isolated cases.

  Paul Auster

  Appreciation, Art, Thinking

  "I want to tell you a story" by Paul Auster, www.theguardian.com. November 4, 2006.

• I sometimes feel that my goal as a novelist would be to write a novel in which the language was so transparent that the reader would forget that language was the medium of understanding. Of course that's not possible, but it's some sort of idealized goal.

  Paul Auster

  Writing, Goal, Understanding

  "A Connoisseur of Clouds, a Meteorologist of Whims: The Rumpus Interview with Paul Auster". Interview with Juliet Linderman, therumpus.net. November 16, 2009.

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