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Norman Mailer Quotes about Art

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The final purpose of art is to intensify, even, if necessary, to exacerbate, the moral consciousness of people.

The final purpose of art is to intensify, even, if necessary, to exacerbate, the moral consciousness of people.

Norman Mailer
Art, People, Finals
1959 'Hip, Hell, and The Navigator', in Western Review, no.23, Winter.

The art of the novel is to arrive at that artless point where your characters become more real than yourself.

Norman Mailer
Art, Real, Writing

We live in a time which has created the art of the absurd. It is our art. It contains happenings, Pop art, camp, a theater of the absurd... Do we have the art because the absurd is the patina of waste...? Or are we face to face with a desperate or most rational effort from the deepest resources of the unconscious of us all to rescue civilization from the pit and plague of its bedding?

Norman Mailer
Art, Civilization, Effort
"Cannibals and Christians". Book by Norman Mailer, 1966.

I am convinced the most unfortunate people are those who would make an art of love. It sours other effort. Of all artists, they are certainly the most wretched.

Norman Mailer
Love, Art, People
Norman Mailer (1992). “Advertisements for Myself”, p.181, Harvard University Press

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