Bell Hooks Quotes About Art

Quotes about: Art

• Knowing how to be solitary is central to the art of loving. When we can be alone, we can be with others without using them as a means of escape.

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  Love, Life, Meaningful

  "Time Spent in a Psych Ward" by Erin Nugent, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 10, 2015.

• The function of art is to do more than tell it like it is-it’s to imagine what is possible.

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  Art, Writing, Imagine

  bell hooks (2012). “Outlaw Culture: Resisting Representations”, p.281, Routledge

• there is no politically neutral art.

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  Art

• Contrary to what some folks would have us believe, it is not tragic, even if undesirable, for a person to leave a liberal arts education not having read major works from this canon. Their lives are not ending. And the exciting dimension of knowledge is that we can learn a work without formally studying it. If a student graduates without reading Shakespeare and then reads or studies this work later, it does not delegitimize whatever formal course of study that was completed.

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  Art, Believe, Reading

• Yesterday I was thinking about the whole idea of genius and creative people, and the notion that if you create some magical art, somehow that exempts you from having to pay attention to the small things.

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  Art, Thinking, Ideas

  "Bell Hooks and John Perry Barlow talk “prana in cyberspace”". Interview with John Perry Barlow, www.lionsroar.com. 1995.

• I feel that my environment reflects my belief in the grace and art and elegance of living simply.

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  Art, Grace, Belief

• Some people act as though art that is for a mass audience is not good art, and I think this has been a very negative thing. I know that I have wanted very much to write books that are accessible to the widest audience possible.

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  Art, Book, Writing

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