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William Saroyan Quotes about Art

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The role of art is to make a world which can be inhabited.

The role of art is to make a world which can be inhabited.

William Saroyan
Art, Roles, World
Broadway memorial tribute to Saroyan, reported in The New York Times, October 31, 1983.

Art is what is irresistible.

William Saroyan
Art, Art Is, Irresistible
"The End of the Mannerist Century". Book by William Saroyan, "The Pleasure of Modernist Music" by Ashby Arved, 2004.

San Francisco itself is art, above all literary art. Every block is a short story, every hill a novel. Every home a poem, every dweller within immortal. That is the whole truth.

William Saroyan
Art, Block, Home

Chance acquaintances are sometimes the most memorable, for brief friendships have such definite starting and stopping points that they take on a quality of art, of a whole thing, which cannot be broken or spoiled.

William Saroyan
Art, Memorable, Broken
William Saroyan (1984). “The New Saroyan Reader: A Connoisseur's Anthology of the Writings of William Saroyan”, Creative Arts Book Company

Baseball is caring. Player and fan alike must care, or there is no game. If there's no game, there's no pennant race and no World Series. And for all any of us know there might soon be no nation at all. It is good to care - in any dimension. More Americans put their caring into baseball than into anything else I can think of - and most put at least a little of it there. Baseball can be trusted, as great art can, and bad art can't.

William Saroyan
Baseball, Art, Caring

How do you write? You write, man, you write, that's how, and you do it the way the old English walnut tree puts forth leaf and fruit every year by the thousands. . . . If you practice an art faithfully, it will make you wise, and most writers can use a little wising up.

William Saroyan
Wise, Art, Writing

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