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I want to overhear passionate arguments about what we are and what we are doing and what we ought to do. I want to feel that art is an utterance made in good faith by one human being to another. I want to believe there

I want to overhear passionate arguments about what we are and what we are doing and what we ought to do. I want to feel that art is an utterance made in good faith by one human being to another. I want to believe there are geniuses scheming to astonish the rest of us, just for the pleasure of it.

Marilynne Robinson
Art, Believe, Genius
Marilynne Robinson (2014). “The Death of Adam: Essays on Modern Thought”, p.4, Picador

The locus of the human mystery is perception of this world. From it proceeds every thought, every art.

Marilynne Robinson
Art, Perception, World
Marilynne Robinson (2012). “When I Was A Child I Read Books”, p.12, Hachette UK

I want to feel that art is an utterance made in good faith by one human being to another.

Marilynne Robinson
Art, Utterance, Want
Marilynne Robinson (2014). “The Death of Adam: Essays on Modern Thought”, p.4, Picador

One of the things that is nice about these old pastors - they were young at the time - who went into the Middle West is that they were real humanists. They were often linguists, for example, and the schools that they established were then, as they are now, real liberal arts colleges where people studied the humanities in a very broad sense. I think that should be reflected in his mind; appropriately, it is.

Marilynne Robinson
Art, Real, Nice
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