Art Quotes by Charles Bukowski

The Difference Between Art and Life is that Art is More Bearable

— Charles Bukowski

Any asshole can chase a skirt, art takes discipline.

— Charles Bukowski

To do a dull thing with style-now that's what I call art.

— Charles Bukowski

To create art means to be crazy alone forever.

— Charles Bukowski

Great art is horseshit, buy tacos.

— Charles Bukowski

An artist is a man who says a difficult thing in a simple way

— Charles Bukowski

“Everything is so sweetly awful, so continuously sweetly awful: the art of consummation: life eating life.”

— Charles Bukowski

Art is its own excuse, and it's either Art or it's something else. It's either a poem or a piece of cheese.

— Charles Bukowski

“Creation is like anything else good: You have to wait on it; ambition has killed more Artists than indolence.”

— Charles Bukowski

A woman must be nursed into subsistence by love, where a man can become stronger by being hated." - from 'Cows in…

— Charles Bukowski

Bullfighting can be an art Boxing can be an art Loving can be an art Opening a can of sardines can be…

— Charles Bukowski

“how to do it” will never create an Art, it will never shake the old skin, it will never get us out…

— Charles Bukowski

Intellectuals say simple things in difficult ways. Artists say difficult things in simple ways.

— Charles Bukowski

An intellectual says a simple thing in a hard way. An artist says a hard thing in a simple way.

— Charles Bukowski

the way to create art is to burn and destroy ordinary concepts and to substitute them with new truths that run down…

— Charles Bukowski

To me Art (poetry) is a continuous and continuing process and that when a man fails to write good poetry he fails…

— Charles Bukowski

Style is the answer to everything. A fresh way to approach a dull or dangerous thing. To do a dull thing with…

— Charles Bukowski

escape from the black widow spider is a miracle as great as art. what a web she can weave slowly drawing you…

— Charles Bukowski

great writers are indecent people they live unfairly saving the best part for paper. good human beings save the world so that…

— Charles Bukowski

“I can hear cars on the freeway, it’s like a distant sea sludged with people while over my other shoulder, far over…

— Charles Bukowski

I remembered my New Orleans days, living on two five-cent candy bars a day for weeks at a time in order to…

— Charles Bukowski

I should think that many of our poets, the honest ones, will confess to having no manifesto. It is a painful confession…

— Charles Bukowski

beware the average man the average woman beware their love, their love is average seeks average but there is genius in their…

— Charles Bukowski

“The Genius Of The Crowd there is enough treachery, hatred violence absurdity in the average human being to supply any given army…

— Charles Bukowski

“Style is the answer to everything. A fresh way to approach a dull or dangerous thing To do a dull thing with…

— Charles Bukowski

After dinner or lunch or whatever it was -- with my crazy 12-hour night I was no longer sure what was what…

— Charles Bukowski