Eric Hoffer Quotes about Art

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The best part of the art of living is to know how to grow old gracefully.

The best part of the art of living is to know how to grow old gracefully.

Eric Hoffer

Art, Retirement, Nursing

Eric Hoffer (1996). “The Passionate State of Mind”

Far more crucial than what we know or do not know is what we do not want to know.

Eric Hoffer

Art, Philosophy, History

Eric Hoffer (1996). “The Passionate State of Mind”

Universities are an example of organizations dominated wholly by intellectuals; yet, outside pure science, they have not been an optimal milieu for the unfolding of creative talents. In neither art, music, literature, technology and social theory, nor planning have the Universities figured as originators or as seedbeds of new talents and energies.

Eric Hoffer

Art, Technology, Organization

"Eric Hoffer and the Art of the Notebook" by Tom Bethell in Harper's Magazine, July 2005.

It is probably true that business corrupts everything it touches. It corrupts politics, sports, literature, art, labor unions and so on. But business also corrupts and undermines monolithic totalitarianism. Capitalism is at its liberating best in a noncapitalist environment.

Eric Hoffer

Sports, Art, Literature

"Thoughts of Eric Hoffer, Including: 'Absolute Faith Corrupts Absolutely'". www.nytimes.com. April 25, 1971.

Creativity is discontent translated into arts.

Eric Hoffer

Inspirational, Art, Creativity

The genuine artist is as much a dissatisfied person as the revolutionary, yet how diametrically opposed are the products each distills from his dissatisfaction.

Eric Hoffer

Art, Revolutionary, Genuine

Eric Hoffer (1982). “Between the Devil and the Dragon: The Best Essays and Aphorisms of Eric Hoffer”, HarperCollins Publishers

The Paleolithic hunters who painted the unsurpassed animal murals on the ceiling of the cave at Altamira had only rudimentary tools. Art is older than production for use, and play older than work. Man was shaped less by what he had to do than by what he did in playful moments. It is the child in man that is the source of his uniqueness and creativeness, and the playground is the optimal milieu for the unfolding of his capacities.

Eric Hoffer

Art, Children, Fun

"Reflections on the Human Condition". Book by Eric Hoffer, 1973.

In products of the human mind, simplicity marks the end of a process of refining, while complexity marks a primitive stage. Michelangelo 's definition of art as the purgation of superfluities suggests that the creative effort consists largely in the elimination of that which complicates and confuses a pattern.

Eric Hoffer

Art, Simplicity, Effort

"Eric Hoffer and the Art of the Notebook" by Tom Bethell in Harper's Magazine, July 2005.

All great art is revolutionary because it touches upon the reality of man and questions the reality of the various transitory forms of human society.

Eric Hoffer

Art, Reality, Men

One is not quite certain that creativeness in the arts, literature, and science functions best in an environment of absolute freedom. Chances are that a relatively mild tyranny stimulates creativeness.

Eric Hoffer

Art, Literature, Chance

"Eric Hoffer and the Art of the Notebook" by Tom Bethell in Harper's Magazine, July 2005.

The autonomous individual, striving to realize himself and prove his worth, has created all that is great in literature, art, music, science and technology. The autonomous individual, also, when he can neither realize himself nor justify his existence by his own efforts, is a breeding call of frustration, and the seed of the convulsions which shake our world to its foundations.

Eric Hoffer

Art, Frustration, Technology

Eric Hoffer (1996). “The Passionate State of Mind”