Kathryn Harrison Quotes

I admire writers who succeed at what I consider the first demand of art: that the artist vivisect himself without pity, without hesitation, determined to reveal whatever he might find.

Kathryn Harrison

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Politics is the art of the next best.

Otto von Bismarck
- Art
- Best
- Politics
Surreal fiction is a sophisticated art form. Events happen divorced from conventional logic, as events in a dream may happen. But unlike dreams, everything in the story contributes to an overall coherent point, impression or emotion.

Nancy Kress
- Art
- May
- Dream
I like elegance. I like art nouveau; a stretched line or curve. These things are very much in the foreground of my work.

H. R. Giger
- Work
- Art
- Elegance
Thou must be emptied of that wherewith thou art full, that thou mayest be filled with that whereof thou art empty.

Saint Augustine
- Art
- Empty
- Thou Art
The record business is dangerous to the health of bands and individuals, which is something I'm just now learning. But it's not dangerous in any of the ways people think; it's not that they try to make you compromise your art. That's not the problem.

T Bone Burnett
- People
- Art
- Business
I think that's what art is about: to provoke you. It helps me make sense of a senseless universe because I become the god of the story. I create it, and I see it in all its lineaments in my own way and can control it – in a world in which everything else is out of control.

T. C. Boyle
- World
- God
- Art