Art Quotes by Allen Ginsberg

8 Art quotes by Allen Ginsberg

Allen Ginsberg’s eight quotes on art pulse with the same free‑form energy that characterizes his verse, offering a concise but vivid portrait of artistic inspiration.

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Mind is shapely, Art is shapely.

Allen Ginsberg

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A poem is like a radio that can broadcast continuously for thousands of years.

Allen Ginsberg

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Fortunately art is a community effort - a small but select community living in a spiritualized world endeavoring to interpret the wars…

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Bob Dylan's one of the greatest blues singers of the western world; ancient art, on-the-spot improvisation, mind quickness, endless variation, classical formulae,…

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So the problem for the poetic artist or the photographer is the common problem of continuous attentiveness, continuous attempts to notice what…

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Since art is merely and ultimately self-expressive, we conclude that the fullest art, the most individual, uninfluenced, unrepressed, uninhibited expression of art…

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Poetry is the one place where people can speak their original human mind. It is the outlet for people to say in…

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We love to be hurt and we love to have our unhealing wounds opened and reopened again: we sit staring in the…

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