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Ursula K. Le Guin Quotes about Art

Resistance and change often begin in art, and very often in our art - the art of words.

Ursula K. Le Guin (2016). “Words Are My Matter: Writings About Life and Books, 2000-2016, with a Journal of a WriterÕs Week”, p.115, Small Beer Press

We need writers who know the difference between the production of a commodity and the practice of an art.

Ursula K. Le Guin (2018). “Dreams Must Explain Themselves: The Selected Non-Fiction of Ursula K. Le Guin”, p.441, Hachette UK

Skill in writing frees you to write what you want to write. It may also show you what you want to write. Craft enables art.

Ursula K. Le Guin (2015). “Steering the Craft: A Twenty-First-Century Guide to Sailing the Sea of Story”, p.13, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Do you know how to read?" "No. It is one of the black arts." He nodded. "But a useful one," he said.

Ursula K. Le Guin (2012). “The Tombs of Atuan”, p.136, Simon and Schuster

In art, 'good enough' is not good enough.

Ursula K. Le Guin, Susan Wood (1980). “The Language of the Night: Essays on Fantasy and Science Fiction”, p.88, Ultramarine Publishing

Art, like sex, cannot be carried on indefinitely solo; after all, they have the same enemy, sterility.

Ursula K. Le Guin, Susan Wood (1980). “The Language of the Night: Essays on Fantasy and Science Fiction”, p.27, Ultramarine Publishing

It was men's ambitions, they said, that had perverted all the arts to ends of gain.

Ursula K. Le Guin (2016). “The Found and the Lost: The Collected Novellas of Ursula K. Le Guin”, p.488, Simon and Schuster