Narrative Art Quotes

• The best way to truly understand narrative art is to experience it.

  George Lucas

  Art, Narrative, Way

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• Narrative art, the novel, from Murasaki to Proust, has produced great works of poetry.

  Eugenio Montale

  Art, Narrative, Proust

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• What fiction and art can do, particularly narrative art, is construct consciousness - in a sense, we have to do it for the first time, every time.

  Aleksandar Hemon

  Art, Narrative, Firsts

  "There Is No Real Life". Interview with Brad Fox, www.guernicamag.com. March 15, 2013.

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• You can't but know that if you can capture the emotions of the audience as well as their minds, the play will work better, because it's a narrative art form.

  Tom Stoppard

  Art, Play, Mind

  "'You can't help being what you write'". Interview with Maya Jaggi, www.theguardian.com. September 5, 2008.

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• As you may know, my motto is: "All memory is fiction." It could just as easily be: "All fiction is memory." Unpacked, these two statements defy the ease of logic, but offer some really important truths about narrative art, at the very least, and about memory. So I would say that all art is personal.

  Kwame Dawes

  Art, Memories, Two

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• When a culture is being dumbed down as effectively as ours is, its narrative arts (literature, film, theatre) seem to vacillate between the brutal and the bland, sometimes in the same work.

  Tom Robbins

  Art, Theatre, Culture

  "The Syntax of Sorcery: An Interview with Tom Robbins". Interview with Tony Vigorito, realitysandwich.com. June 6, 2012.

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• As with all other aspects of the narrative art, you will improve with practice, but practice will never make you perfect. Why should it? What fun would that be?

  Stephen King

  Art, Fun, Writing

  Stephen King (2002). “On Writing”, p.178, Simon and Schuster

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• The poem is not only the point of origin for all the language and narrative arts, the poem returns us to the very social function of art as such.

  Ron Silliman

  Art, Poetry, Narrative

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• We all have an aggressive dedication to the narrative arts - comics, film, electronic gaming, and more. We spend much of our time and effort exploring those forms and have an enormous investment in the arts. We're all part of the same brotherhood as far as I'm concerned.

  Jim Steranko

  Art, Dedication, Effort

  "Jim Steranko talks comics, his new book and coming to Tampa". Interview with Brandon Jones, www.theglobaldispatch.com. February 29, 2012.

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