All good art is an indiscretion.
“All good art is an indiscretion.”
The World Motivation
All good art is an indiscretion.
“All good art is an indiscretion.”
All good art is an indiscretion.
To begin with, I turn back time. I reverse it to that quaint period, the thirties, when the huge middle class of America was matriculating in a school for the blind. Their eyes had failed them, or they had failed their eyes, and so they were having their fingers pressed forcibly down on the fiery Braille alphabet of a dissolving economy.
Time is the longest distance between two places.
If I am no longer disturbed myself, I will deal less with disturbed people, but I don't regret having concerned myself with them because I think most of us are disturbed.
The art of writing is the art of discovering what you believe.
It is more important to click with people than to click the shutter.
Everything that has ever been called folk art has always reflected domination.
What strikes me is the fact that in our society, art has become something which is only related to objects, and not to individuals, or to life.
It is art that makes life, makes interest, makes importance and I know of no substitute whatever for the force and beauty of its process.
Then what is good? The obsessive interest in human affairs, plus a certain amount of compassion and moral conviction, that first made the experience of living something that must be translated into pigment or music or bodily movement or poetry or prose or anything that's dynamic and expressivee--that's what's good for you if you're at all serious in your aims. William Saroyan wrote a great play on this theme, that purity of heart is the one success worth having. "In the time of your life--live!" That time is short and it doesn't return again. It is slipping away while I write this and while you read it, the monosyllable of the clock is Loss, loss, loss, unless you devote your heart to its opposition.