Erica Jong Quotes about Art

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Art is always an energy exchange.

Erica Jong

Art, Energy, Art Is

Erica Jong (1994). “The Devil at Large: Erica Jong on Henry Miller”, p.7, Grove Press

I don't know what the definition of pornography is and nobody else does either. Pornography is somebody else's erotica that you don't like. People are interested in their own sexuality and they've always reflected it in their art. End of story.

Erica Jong

Art, People, Doe

"Free-Associating with Erica Jong". Interview with Robin Epstain. Lilith magazine, www.lilith.org. Fall 1995.

Art keeps one young, I think, because it keeps one perpetually a beginner, perpetually a child.

Erica Jong

Art, Children, Thinking

Erica Jong (2013). “Shylock's Daughter: A Novel of Love in Venice”, p.62, Open Road Media

As yet we use our media only for selling things - including, of course, political candidates. What will happen when someone masters the art of selling souls?

Erica Jong

Art, Media, Selling Things

Erica Jong (1994). “The Devil at Large: Erica Jong on Henry Miller”, p.4, Grove Press

It's useful to know how much society's holding you back. My mother would talk about how she was told by the head of her art school that she was the best painter, but that she wouldn't get the biggest prize because she would waste her talent by having children. I think we have to get honest with girls about how they can expect the world to block them, and we have to prepare girls, and ourselves, to break through those blocks.

Erica Jong

Girl, Mother, Art

"Erica Jong on Feminism for the Future". Omega Institute Interview, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 13, 2014.

biography is essentially a collaborative art, the latest biographer collaborating with all those who wrote earlier.

Erica Jong

Art, Biographies, Biographers

Erica Jong (2013). “The Devil at Large: Erica Jong on Henry Miller”, p.65, Open Road Media

art is not advocacy and advocacy is not art.

Erica Jong

Art, Activism, Advocacy

Erica Jong (2007). “What Do Women Want?: Essays by Erica Jong”, p.72, Penguin

perfectionism is the enemy of art. Since art is essentially divine play, not dogged work, it often happens that as one becomes more professionally driven one also becomes less capriciously playful.

Erica Jong

Art, Play, Perfection

Erica Jong (1985). “Parachutes & kisses”, Signet

Women's books are kind of discriminated against. If a man writes a book about his family stories, people think of it as literature. If it's a woman, she's 'spilling her guts,' and it's not art.

Erica Jong

Art, Book, Writing

If we ban whatever offends any group in our diverse society, we will soon have no art, no culture, no humor, no satire. Satire is by its nature offensive. So is much art and political discourse. The value of these expressions far outweighs their risk.

Erica Jong

Art, Expression, Diverse Society

Erica Jong (2007). “What Do Women Want?: Essays by Erica Jong”, p.84, Penguin

Erica Jong Quotes about Art

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