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Kurt Vonnegut Quotes about Art

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Practice any art, music, singing, dancing, acting, drawing, painting, sculpting, poetry, fiction, essays, reportage, no matter how well or badly, not to get money and fame, but to experience becoming, to find out what's

Practice any art, music, singing, dancing, acting, drawing, painting, sculpting, poetry, fiction, essays, reportage, no matter how well or badly, not to get money and fame, but to experience becoming, to find out what's inside you, to make your soul grow.

Motivational, Art, Work

"Kurt Vonnegut Once Sent This Amazing Letter To A High School" by Emily Thomas, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 6, 2014.

The arts are not a way to make a living. They are a very human way of making life more bearable.

Art, Way, Breakfast Of Champions

Kurt Vonnegut (2011). “A Man Without a Country”, p.24, Seven Stories Press

If you want to really hurt you parents, and you don't have the nerve to be gay, the least you can do is go into the arts. I'm not kidding. The arts are not a way to make a living. They are a very human way of making life more bearable. Practicing an art, no matter how well or badly, is a way to make your soul grow, for heaven's sake. Sing in the shower. Dance to the radio. Tell stories. Write a poem to a friend, even a lousy poem. Do it as well as you possible can. You will get an enormous reward. You will have created something.

Art, Hurt, Writing

Nowadays, of course, just about our only solvent industry is the merchandising of death, bankrolled by our grandchildren, so that the message of our principal art forms, movies and television and political speeches and newspaper columns, for the sake of the economy, simply has to be this: War is hell, all right, but the only way a boy can become a man is in a shoot-out of some kind, preferably, but by no means necessarily, on a battlefield.

Art, War, Mean

Kurt Vonnegut (1987). “Bluebeard: A Novel”, New York : Delacorte Press

You don't do art for any other reason than to help your soul grow.

Art, Soul, Helping

I just don't think people get off on language anymore. Language used to be an elevated art. It used to be for people what music can be. But people don't learn to do that anymore, so eloquence is merely a matter of waste. Who needs a good vocabulary and proper English? Eloquence - it's dead and who needs it?

Art, Thinking, Vocabulary

Source: www.mcsweeneys.net

You are being suffocated by tradition... Why don't you say, 'I am going to build a life for myself, for my time, and make it a work of art'? Your life isn't a work of art ---it's a thirdhand Victorian whatnot shelf, complete with someone else's collection of seashells and hand-carved elephants.

Art, Hands, Elephants

So many people think that practicing an art is a good way to make a living. Practicing an art, no matter how well or badly, is a way to make your soul grow, for heaven's sake. I'm talking about singing in the shower, I'm talking about dancing to the radio, I'm talking about writing a poem to a friend.

Art, Writing, Thinking

No one can amount to a damn in the arts if he becomes sweetly reasonable, seeing all sides of a picture, forgiving all sins.

Art, Forgiving, Sides

Kurt Vonnegut (2010). “Look At the Birdie”, p.4, Random House

To practice any art, no matter how well or badly, is a way to make your soul grow. So do it.

Art, Practice, Soul

"Finding Soul in LA: Five Creative Adventures in the City" by Roxie Sarhangi, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 18, 2014.

No art is possible without a dance with death.

Art, Art Is

KURT VONNEGUT JR (1969). “SLAUGHTERHOUSE FIVE”

The world is too serious. To get mad at a work of art-because maybe somebody, somewhere is blowing his stack over what I've done-is like getting mad at a hot fudge sundae.

Art, Mad, Serious

The practice of art isn't to make a living. It's to make your soul grow.

Inspirational, Art, Practice

The primary benefit of practicing any art, whether well or badly, is that it enables one's soul to grow.

Life, Art, Soul

The canary bird in the coal mine theory of the arts: artists should be treasured as alarm systems.

Art, Bird, Alarms

Contemplating a purported work of art is a social activity. Either you have a rewarding time, or you don't. You don't have to say why afterward. You don't have to say anything.

Art, Say Anything, Social

Kurt Vonnegut (1998). “Timequake”, p.129, Penguin

The arts put man at the center of the universe, whether he belongs there or not. Military science, on the other hand, treats man as garbage - and his children, and his cities, too. Military science is probably right about the contemptibility of man in the vastness of the universe. Still - I deny that contemptibility, and I beg you to deny it, through the creation of appreciation of art.

Appreciation, Art, Children

Kurt Vonnegut's Commencement Address at Bennington College, 1970.

If you really want to hurt your parents and you don't have nerve enough to be homosexual, the least you can do is go into the arts.

Hurt, Art, Writing

Kurt Vonnegut (1998). “Timequake”, p.49, Penguin

People should practice an art in order to make their souls grow and not to make money or become famous. Paint a picture. Write.

Art, Writing, Order

I realize that some of you may have come in hopes of hearing tips on how to become a professional writer. I say to you, "If you really want to hurt your parents, and you don't have the nerve to be a homosexual, the least you can do is go into the arts. But do not use semicolons. They are transvestite hermaphrodites, standing for absolutely nothing. All they do is show you've been to college.

Art, Hurt, College

Literature is the only art in which the audience performs the score.

Art, Literature, Score

The arts are not a way to make a living.

Art, Way, Breakfast Of Champions

Kurt Vonnegut (2011). “A Man Without a Country”, p.24, Seven Stories Press

One thing I hate about school committees today is that they cut arts programs out of the curriculum because they say the arts aren't a way to make a living.

Art, Hate, School

Source: artisticactivism.org

The hare of history once more overtakes the tortoise of art.

Art, Tortoises, Hares

Kurt Vonnegut (2009). “Mother Night: A Novel”, p.261, Dial Press

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