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Art is like an ill-trained Labrador retriever that drags you out into traffic.

Art is like an ill-trained Labrador retriever that drags you out into traffic.

Annie Dillard
Art, Labradors, Traffic

The mind itself is an art object ... The mind is a blue guitar on which we improvise the song of the world.

Annie Dillard
Song, Art, Blue
Annie Dillard (1983). “Living by Fiction”, New York : Harper & Row

I like to be aware of a book as a piece of writing, and aware of its structure as a product of mind, and yet I want to be able to see the represented world through it. I admire artists who succeed in dividing my attention more or less evenly between the world of their books and the art of their books . . . so that a reader may study the work with pleasure as well as the world that it describes.

Annie Dillard
Art, Book, Writing

The mind itself is an art object. It is a Mondrian canvas onto whose homemade grids it fits its own preselected products. Our knowledge is contextual and only contextual. Ordering and invention coincide: we call their collaboration knowledge.

Annie Dillard
Art, Mind, Collaboration
Annie Dillard (1982). “Living by fiction”, HarperCollins Publishers

Fiction keeps its audience by retaining the world as its subject matter. People like the world. Many people actually prefer it to art and spend their days by choice in the thick of it.

Annie Dillard
Art, People, Choices
Annie Dillard (1983). “Living by Fiction”, New York : Harper & Row

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