Diane Ackerman Quotes about Art

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Much of life becomes background, but it is the province of art to throw buckets of light into the shadows and make life new again.

Much of life becomes background, but it is the province of art to throw buckets of light into the shadows and make life new again.

Diane Ackerman

Art, Light, Shadow

Diane Ackerman (2011). “A Natural History of the Senses”, p.9, Vintage

A self is a frightening thing to waste, it's the lens through which one's whole life is viewed, and few people are willing to part with it, in death, or even imaginatively, in art.

Diane Ackerman

Art, Self, People

Diane Ackerman (2004). “An Alchemy of Mind: The Marvel and Mystery of the Brain”, p.225, Simon and Schuster