John Steinbeck Quotes about Art

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Teaching might even be the greatest of the arts since the medium is the human mind and spirit.

Teaching might even be the greatest of the arts since the medium is the human mind and spirit.

John Steinbeck

Teacher, Art, Teaching

John Steinbeck (2003). “America and Americans and Selected Nonfiction”, p.123, Penguin

[Man] is the only animal who lives outside of himself, whose drive is in external things—property, houses, money, concepts of power. He lives in his cities and his factories, in his business and job and art. But having projected himself into these external complexities, he is them. His house, his automobile are a part of him and a large part of him. This is beautifully demonstrated by a thing doctors know—that when a man loses his possessions a very common result is sexual impotence.

John Steinbeck

Art, Jobs, Animal

John Steinbeck (1995). “The Log from the Sea of Cortez”, p.89, Penguin

The craft or art of writing is the clumsy attempt to find symbols for the wordlessness.

John Steinbeck

Art, Writing, Crafts

John Steinbeck (1990). “Journal of a Novel: The East of Eden Letters”, p.8, Penguin

Teaching might even be the greatest of the arts since the medium is the human mind and spirit. My three [great teachers] did not tell - they catalyzed a burning desire to know. Under their influence, the horizons sprung wide and fear went away and the unknown became knowable. But most important of all, the truth, that dangerous stuff, became beautiful and very precious.

John Steinbeck

Beautiful, Teacher, Art

The craft of writing is the art of penetrating other minds with the figures that are in your own mind.

John Steinbeck

Art, Writing, Mind

John Steinbeck, Thomas Fensch (1988). “Conversations with John Steinbeck”, p.44, Univ. Press of Mississippi

Our Father who art in nature, who has given the gift of survival to the coyote, the common brown rat, the English sparrow, the house fly and the moth, must have a great and overwhelming love for no-goods and blots-on-the-town and bums, and Mack and the boys. Virtues and graces and laziness and zest. Our Father who art in nature.

John Steinbeck

Art, Father, Boys

John Steinbeck (2001). “Novels, 1942-1952”

Our species is the only creative species, and it has only one creative instrument, the individual mind and spirit of man. Nothing was ever created by two men. There are no good collaborations, whether in music, in art, in poetry, in mathematics, in philosophy. Once the miracle of creation has taken place, the group can build and extend it, but the group never invents anything. The preciousness lies in the lonely mind of a man.

John Steinbeck

Lonely, Art, Philosophy

"East of Eden". Book by John Steinbeck, 1952.