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Ray Bradbury Quotes about Art

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That's the great secret of creativity. You treat ideas like cats: you make them follow you.

That's the great secret of creativity. You treat ideas like cats: you make them follow you.

Art, Creativity, Cat

We need our Arts to teach us how to breathe

Art, Needs, Breathe

And what, you ask, does writing teach us? First and foremost, it reminds us that we are alive and that it is gift and a privilege, not a right. We must earn life once it has been awarded us. Life asks for rewards back because it has favored us with animation. So while our art cannot, as we wish it could, save us from wars, privation, envy, greed, old age, or death, it can revitalize us amidst it all.

Art, War, Writing

FaceBook post by Ray Bradbury from Aug 27, 2014

So while our art cannot, as we wish it could, save us from wars, privation, envy, greed, old age, or death, it can revitalize us amidst it all.

Art, War, Envy

Ray Bradbury (2015). “Zen in the Art of Writing”, p.8, HarperCollins UK

I ate them like salad, books were my sandwich for lunch, my tiffin and dinner and midnight munch. I tore out the pages, ate them with salt, doused them with relish, gnawed on the bindings, turned the chapters with my tongue! Books by the dozen, the score and the billion. I carried so many home I was hunchbacked for years. Philosophy, art history, politics, social science, the poem, the essay, the grandiose play, you name 'em, I ate 'em.

Art, Philosophy, Book

"Fahrenheit 451". Book by Ray Bradbury, 1953.

We have our Arts so we won't die of Truth.

Art, Dies

"Do Smarter Politics Make for Better Films?" by Anthony Kaufman, www.indiewire.com. December 2, 2011.

This is the emotional thing, you see - you must galvanize people, so they want to be completely alive and live forever, or the next thing to it. And out of that comes art, then, and survival through emotion.

Art, Emotional, People

Science fiction is any idea that occurs in the head and doesn't exist yet, but soon will, and will change everything for everybody, and nothing will ever be the same again. As soon as you have an idea that changes some small part of the world you are writing science fiction. It is always the art of the possible, never the impossible.

Art, Writing, Ideas

Ray Bradbury, Sam Weller (2012). “Listen to the Echoes: The Ray Bradbury Interviews”, p.284, Melville House

Science is no more than an investigation of a miracle we can never explain, and art is an interpretation of that miracle.

Inspirational, Life, Art

Ray Bradbury (2012). “The Martian Chronicles”, p.88, Simon and Schuster

As a result of reading science fiction when I was eight, I grew up with an interest in music, architecture, city planning, transportation, politics, ethics, aesthetics on any level, art...it's just total! It's a complete commitment to the whole human race on all the Earth. That's what science fiction is about.

Art, Reading, Commitment

Source: www.tangentonline.com

Self-consciousness is the enemy of all art, be it acting, writing, painting, or living itself, which is the greatest art of all.

Art, Writing, Self

Ray Bradbury (1991). “On stage: a chrestomathy of his plays”, Plume

In our time the search for extraterrestrial life will eventually change our laws, our religions, our philosophies, our arts, our recreations, as well as our sciences. Space, the mirror, waits for life to come look for itself there.

Art, Philosophy, Mirrors

I define science fiction as the art of the possible. Fantasy is the art of the impossible. Science fiction, again, is the history of ideas, and they're always ideas that work themselves out and become real and happen in the world. And fantasy comes along and says, 'We're going to break all the laws of physics.' ... Most people don't realize it, but the series of films which have made more money than any other series of films in the history of the universe is the James Bond series. They're all science fiction, too - romantic, adventurous, frivolous, fantastic science fiction!

Art, Real, Law

I define science fiction as the art of the possible. Fantasy is the art of the impossible.

Art, Fiction, Impossible

The only science fiction I have written is Fahrenheit 451. It's the art of the possible. Science fiction is the art of the possible. It could happen. It has happened.

Art, Fiction, Happened

Writer's Symposium By The Sea, Point Loma Nazarene University, cosmolearning.org. April, 2001.

Ah, art! Ah, life! The pendulum swinging back and forth, from complex to simple, again to complex. From romantic to realistic, back to romantic.

Life, Art, Simple

Ray Bradbury (1955). “THE OCTOBER COUNTRY”

But we do need a breather. We do need knowledge. And perhaps in a thousand years we might pick smaller cliffs to jump off. The books are to remind us what asses and fools we are. They’re Caesar’s praetorian guard, whispering as the parade roars down the avenue, ‘Remember, Caesar, thou art mortal.’ Most of us can’t rush around, talk to everyone, know all the cities of the world, we haven’t time, money or that many friends. The things you’re looking for, Montag, are in the world, but the only way the average chap will ever see ninety-nine per cent of them is in a book.

Art, Book, Ninety Nine

Ray Bradbury (2016). “Fahrenheit 451”, p.41, Hamilton Books

I love all of the arts. I love motion pictures. I love stage. I love theater.

Art, Theater, Stage

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