Rita Mae Brown Quotes about Art

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Art is moral passion married to entertainment. Moral passion without entertainment is propaganda, and entertainment without moral passion is television.

Art is moral passion married to entertainment. Moral passion without entertainment is propaganda, and entertainment without moral passion is television.

Rita Mae Brown

Art, Passion, Television

Rita Mae Brown (2011). “Starting from Scratch: A Different Kind of Writers' Manual”, p.55, Bantam

I believe in art that conceals art.

Rita Mae Brown

Art, Believe, I Believe

Rita Mae Brown (2011). “Starting from Scratch: A Different Kind of Writers' Manual”, p.8, Bantam

I'm sorry that our country and the people do not consider the arts as vital to our well-being as, say, medicine. Suffering is unnecessary. It doesn't make you a better artist; it only makes you a hungry one. However, to me the acquisition of the craft of writing was worth any amount of suffering.

Rita Mae Brown

Country, Art, Sorry

A controller doesn't trust his/her ability to live through the pain and chaos of life. There is no life without pain just as there is no art without submitting to chaos.

Rita Mae Brown

Art, Pain, Chaos

Sport strips away personality, letting the white bone of character shine through. Sport gives players an opportunity to know and test themselves. The great difference between sport and art is that sport, like a sonnet, forces beauty within its own system. Art, on the other hand, cyclically destroys boundaries and breaks free.

Rita Mae Brown

Sports, Art, Character