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Art can make a difference because it pulls people up short. It says, don't accept things for their face value; you don't have to go along with any of this; you can think for yourself.

Art can make a difference because it pulls people up short. It says, don't accept things for their face value; you don't have to go along with any of this; you can think for yourself.

Jeanette Winterson
Art, Thinking, Differences

Naked I came into the world, but brush strokes cover me, language raises me, music rhythms me. Art is my rod and staff, my resting place and shield, and not mine only, for art leaves nobody out. Even those from whom art has been stolen away by tyranny, by poverty, begin to make it again. If the arts did not exist, at every moment, someone would begin to create them, in song, out of dust and mud, and although the artifacts might be destroyed, the energy that creates them is not destroyed.

Jeanette Winterson
Song, Art, Dust

The rebellion of art is a daily rebellion against the state of living death routinely called real life.

Jeanette Winterson
Art, Real, Rebellion

If art, all art, is concerned with truth, then a society in denial will not find much use for it.

Jeanette Winterson
Art, Use, Denial
Jeanette Winterson (2013). “Art Objects: Essays on Ecstasy and Effrontery”, p.14, Random House

I don't understand why people talk of art as a luxury when it's a mind-altering possibility.

Jeanette Winterson
Art, Luxury, People
"Redemption songs". Interview with Maya Jaggi, www.theguardian.com. May 28, 2004.

Art saved me; it got me through my depression and self-loathing, back to a place of innocence.

Jeanette Winterson
Depression, Art, Healing

What it means to be human is to bring up your children in safety, educate them, keep them healthy, teach them how to care for themselves and others, allow them to develop in their own way among adults who are sane and responsibile, who know the value of the world and not its economic potential. It means art, it means time, it means all the invisibles never counted by the GDP and the census figures. It means knowing that life has an inside as well as an outside. And I think it means love.

Jeanette Winterson
Art, Children, Mean

Long looking at paintings is equivalent to being dropped into a foreign city, where gradually, out of desire and despair, a few key words, then a little syntax make a clearing in the silence. Art... is a foreign city, and we deceive ourselves when we think it familiar... We have to recognize that the language of art, all art, is not our mother-tongue.

Jeanette Winterson
Mother, Art, Thinking

Sometimes we forget that if we do not encourage new work now, we will lose all touch with the work of the past we claim to love. If art is not living in a continuous present, it is living in a museum, only those working now can complete the circuit between the past, present and future energies we call art.

Jeanette Winterson
Art, Past, Museums

There's no such thing as autobiography, there's only art and lies

Jeanette Winterson
Art, Lying, Autobiography
Jeanette Winterson (1995). “Art & Lies : a Piece for Three Voices and a Bawd”, Vintage Canada

Art is a foreign city, and we deceive ourselves when we think it familiar. We have to recognize that the language of art, all art, is not our mother tongue.

Jeanette Winterson
Mother, Art, Thinking

Art is enchantment and artists have the right of spells.

Jeanette Winterson
Art, Enchantment, Spells
Jeanette Winterson (2013). “Art Objects: Essays on Ecstasy and Effrontery”, p.51, Random House

There's a whole generation growing up thinking you shouldn't seek knowledge for its own sake, and that theatre and art and books are activities that you do after-hours, rather than things that are at the heart of life. That's a huge change.

Jeanette Winterson
Art, Growing Up, Book
Source: www.newstatesman.com

I think every work of art is an act of faith, or we wouldn't bother to do it. It is a message in a bottle, a shout in the dark. It's saying, 'I'm here and I believe that you are somewhere and that you will answer if necessary across time, not necessarily in my lifetime.'

Jeanette Winterson
Art, Believe, Dark
Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

Journalism encourages haste ... and haste is the enemy of art.

Jeanette Winterson
Art, Enemy, Haste

Why should literature be easy? Sometimes you can do what you want to do in a simple, direct way that is absolutely right. Sometimes you can't. Reading is not a passive act. Books are not TV. Art of all kinds is an interactive challenge. The person who makes the work and the person who comes to the work both have a job to do. I am never wilfully obscure, but I do ask for some effort.

Jeanette Winterson
Art, Jobs, Book

Two things significantly distinguish human beings from the other animals; an interest in the past and the possibility of language. Brought together they make a third: Art. The invisible city not calculated to exist. Beyond the lofty pretensions of the merely ceremonial, long after the dramatic connivings of plitical life, like it or not, it remains. Time past eternally present and undestroyed.

Jeanette Winterson
Art, Animal, Past
Jeanette Winterson (1995). “Art & Lies: A Piece for Three Voices and a Bawd”, Knopf

I want to be an art-hero - I want to change the form of the novel.

Jeanette Winterson
Art, Hero, Want
Source: www.newstatesman.com

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