Art Quotes by David Sedaris

Boys who spent their weekends making banana nut muffins did not, as a rule, excel in the art of hand-to-hand combat.

— David Sedaris

Art isn't about following the rules. It's about breaking them.

— David Sedaris

If you are any kind of an artist, then validation . . . can be a result, but you're going to do the work anyway.

— David Sedaris

“the beauty of an art school: as long as you can pay the tuition, they will never, even in the gentlest way,…

— David Sedaris

“True art was based upon despair, and the important thing was to make yourself and those around you as miserable as possible.”

— David Sedaris

“It was the artist’s duty to find the appropriate objects, and the audience’s job to decipher meaning. If the piece failed to…

— David Sedaris

I would still be reading out loud. I think that if you are any kind of an artist, then validation is just…

— David Sedaris

Such movies are always a danger...falling in love is something most adults have actually experienced...The theme is universal and encourages...unhealthy comparisons...why can't…

— David Sedaris

After a few months in my parents' basement, I took an apartment near the state university, where I discovered both crystal methamphetamine…

— David Sedaris

“I've become like one of those people I hate, the sort who go to the museum and, instead of looking at the…

— David Sedaris

“It’s not lost on me that I’m so busy recording life, I don’t have time to really live it. I’ve become like…

— David Sedaris

I wanted to be a visual artist, but I realized I was more affected by what I read than by what I…

— David Sedaris

And one of the things I noticed pretty early on in art school was that my classmates had no notion of an…

— David Sedaris

“Unlike my father, who blindly churned out one canvas after another, I had real ideas about the artistic life. Seated at my…

— David Sedaris

I was first published in the newspaper put out by School of The Art Institute of Chicago, where I was a student.…

— David Sedaris