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An artist is a man who says a difficult thing in a simple way

An artist is a man who says a difficult thing in a simple way

Charles Bukowski
Art, Simple, Men
Charles Bukowski, David Stephen Calonne (2013). “More Notes of a Dirty Old Man: The Uncollected Columns”, p.240, City Lights Books

Style is the answer to everything. A fresh way to approach a dull or dangerous thing. To do a dull thing with style is preferable to doing a dangerous thing without it. To do a dangerous thing with style is what I call art.

Charles Bukowski
Fashion, Art, Style

Any asshole can chase a skirt, art takes discipline.

Charles Bukowski
Art, Discipline, Skirts

To create art means to be crazy alone forever.

Charles Bukowski
Art, Crazy, Mean

Great art is horseshit, buy tacos.

Charles Bukowski
Art, Tacos, Great Art

great writers are indecent people they live unfairly saving the best part for paper. good human beings save the world so that bastards like me can keep creating art, become immortal. if you read this after I am dead it means I made it.

Charles Bukowski
Art, Writing, Mean

the way to create art is to burn and destroy ordinary concepts and to substitute them with new truths that run down from the top of the head and out of the heart

Charles Bukowski
Running, Art, Ordinary
Charles Bukowski (2009). “sifting through the madness for the word, the line, the way: New Poems”, p.91, Zondervan

The Difference Between Art and Life is that Art is More Bearable

Charles Bukowski
Art, Differences, Life Is
Charles Bukowski, David Stephen Calonne (2013). “More Notes of a Dirty Old Man: The Uncollected Columns”, p.239, City Lights Books

beware the average man the average woman beware their love, their love is average seeks average but there is genius in their hatred there is enough genius in their hatred to kill you to kill anybody not wanting solitude not understanding solitude they will attempt to destroy anything that differs from their own not being able to create art they will not understand art they will consider their failure as creators only as a failure of the world

Charles Bukowski
Art, Love Is, Men
Charles Bukowski (2012). “The Pleasures of the Damned: Selected Poems 1951-1993”, p.149, Canongate Books

Bullfighting can be an art Boxing can be an art Loving can be an art Opening a can of sardines can be an art

Charles Bukowski
Art, Boxing, Bullfighting
Song: Style

escape from the black widow spider is a miracle as great as art. what a web she can weave slowly drawing you to her she'll embrace you then when she's satisfied she'll kill you still in her embrace and suck the blood from you.

Charles Bukowski
Art, Blood, Drawing
Charles Bukowski (2009). “Love is a Dog From Hell”, p.37, Harper Collins

An intellectual says a simple thing in a hard way. An artist says a hard thing in a simple way.

Charles Bukowski
Art, Simple, People

I remembered my New Orleans days, living on two five-cent candy bars a day for weeks at a time in order to have leisure to write. But starvation, unfortunately, didn't improve art. It only hindered it. A man's soul was rooted in his stomach. A man could write much better after eating a porterhouse steak and drinking a pint of whiskey than he could ever write after eating a nickel candy bar. The myth of the starving artist was a hoax.

Charles Bukowski
Art, Drinking, Writing
"Factotum". Book by Charles Bukowski, Ch. 29, 1975.

To do a dull thing with style-now that's what I call art.

Charles Bukowski
Life, Art, Thought Provoking

To me Art (poetry) is a continuous and continuing process and that when a man fails to write good poetry he fails to live fully or well.

Charles Bukowski
Art, Writing, Men

A woman must be nursed into subsistence by love, where a man can become stronger by being hated." - from 'Cows in Art Class

Charles Bukowski
Art, Men, Class

Art is its own excuse, and it's either Art or it's something else. It's either a poem or a piece of cheese.

Charles Bukowski
Art, Pieces, Cheese
Charles Bukowski (2015). “On Writing”, p.26, Canongate Books

I should think that many of our poets, the honest ones, will confess to having no manifesto. It is a painful confession but the art of poetry carries its own powers without having to break them down into critical listings. I do not mean that poetry should be raffish and irresponsible clown tossing off words into the void. But the very feeling of a good poem carries its own reason for being... Art is its own excuse, and it’s either Art or it’s something else. It’s either a poem or a piece of cheese.

Charles Bukowski
Art, Mean, Thinking
Charles Bukowski (2015). “On Writing”, p.26, Canongate Books

After dinner or lunch or whatever it was -- with my crazy 12-hour night I was no longer sure what was what -- I said, "Look, baby, I'm sorry, but don't you realize that this job is driving me crazy? Look, let's give it up. Let's just lay around and make love and take walks and talk a little. Let's go to the zoo. Let's look at animals. Let's drive down and look at the ocean. It's only 45 minutes. Let's play games in the arcades. Let's go to the races, the Art Museum, the boxing matches. Let's have friends. Let's laugh. This kind of life like everybody else's kind of life: it's killing us.

Charles Bukowski
Baby, Art, Jobs
Charles Bukowski (2014). “Charles Bukowski Fiction Collection”, Harper Collins

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