Robert A. Heinlein Quotes about Art

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Once there was a race, quite unlike the human race - quite. I have no way of describing to you what they looked like or how they lived, but they had one characteristic you can understand: they were creative. The

Once there was a race, quite unlike the human race - quite. I have no way of describing to you what they looked like or how they lived, but they had one characteristic you can understand: they were creative. The creating and enjoying of works of art was their occupation and their reason for being.

Robert A. Heinlein

Art, Race, Creating

A poet who reads his verse in public may have other nasty habits.

Robert A. Heinlein

Art, Poetry, May

Robert A. Heinlein (1987). “Time Enough for Love”, p.223, Penguin

The ordinary bloke will not voluntarily pay for "art" that leaves him unmoved--if he does pay for it, the money has to be conned out of him, by taxes and such.

Robert A. Heinlein

Art, Ordinary, Doe

Don't appeal to mercy to God the Father up in the sky, little man, because he's not at home and never was at home, and couldn't care less. What you do with yourself, whether you are happy or unhappy- live or die- is strictly your business and the universe doesn't care. In fact you may be the universe and the only cause of all your troubles. But, at best, the most you can hope for is comradeship with comrades no more divine (or just as divine) as you are. So quit sniveling and face up to it- 'Thou art God!'

Robert A. Heinlein

Art, Father, Home

Art is the process of evoking pity and terror, which is not abstract at all but very human. What the self-styled modern artists are doing is a sort of unemotional pseudointellectual masturbation . . . whereas creative art is more like intercourse, in which the artist must seduce -- render emotional -- his audience, each time.

Robert A. Heinlein

Art, Emotional, Self

Robert A. Heinlein (2014). “Stranger in a Strange Land”, p.346, Hachette UK

Unarmed hand-to-hand fighting does not change through the ages; only the name changes, and it has only one rule: do it first, do it fast, do it dirtiest.

Robert A. Heinlein

Art, Fighting, Hands

Robert A. Heinlein (1987). “Time Enough for Love”, p.475, Penguin

Revolution is an art that I pursue rather than a goal I expect to achieve. Nor is this a source of dismay; a lost cause can be as spiritually satisfying as a victory.

Robert A. Heinlein

Art, Goal, Victory

Robert A Heinlein (1966). “Moon Is Harsh Mistres”, Berkley

Around the time of the Terran Caesar Augustus, a Martian artist had been composing a work of art. It could have been called a poem, a musical opus, or a philosophical treatise; it was a series of emotions arranged in tragic, logical necessity. Since it could be experienced by a human only in the sense in which a man blind from birth might have a sunset explained to him, it does not matter which category it be assigned.

Robert A. Heinlein

Art, Philosophical, Sunset

Robert A. Heinlein (1987). “Stranger in a Strange Land”, p.93, Penguin