James A. Baldwin Quotes About Confession

Quotes about: Confession

• All art is a kind of confession, more or less oblique. All artists, if they are to survive, are forced, at last, to tell the whole story, to vomit the anguish up.

  James A. Baldwin

  Art, Kindness, Survival

  "Nobody Knows My Name: More Notes of a Native Son". Book by James A. Baldwin, 1961.

• Art has to be a kind of confession. I don't mean a true confession in the sense of that dreary magazine. The effort it seems to me, is: if you can examine and face your life, you can discover the terms with which you are connected to other lives, and they can discover them, too - the terms with which they are connected to other people.

  James A. Baldwin

  Art, Mean, People

  Interview with Studs Terkel (1961), as quoted in "Conversations With James Baldwin" edited by Fred R. Standley and Louis H. Pratt, May 1, 1989.

• All art is a kind of confession.

  James A. Baldwin

  Art, Kind, Confession

  "Nobody Knows My Name: More Notes of a Native Son". Book by James A. Baldwin, 1961.

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