Art Quotes by Janet Fitch

12 Art quotes by Janet Fitch

Janet Fitch offers twelve brief musings on art that serve as a neat entry point into her narrative sensibility. Though short, the collection captures the emotional undercurrents that run through her storytelling.

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Don't hoard the past. Don't cherish anything. Burn it. The artist is the phoenix who burns to emerge.

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I've told you, nobody becomes an artist unless they have to.

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“The way Starr felt in church, that's how I felt at the art museum, both safe and elevated.”

Janet Fitch

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As an artist, you can never get what you want. What you do never approaches what you want it to be.

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“Well, she wasn’t strong enough to avoid being the background of my art. Just the background. Her words just my canvas.”

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Remember it all, every insult, every tear. Tattoo it on the inside of your mind. In life, knowledge of poisons is essential.…

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“Just make sure nothing is wasted. Take notes. Remember it all, every insult, every tear. Tattoo it on the inside of your…

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If evil means to be self-motivated, to be the center of one’s own universe, to live on one’s own terms, then every…

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“You want car?' Rena said. 'Artist college? You think I don't know? How you think you pay? So this dress. Pretty dress.…

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“I know what you are learning to endure. There is nothing to be done. Make sure nothing is wasted. Take notes. Remember…

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The decor bowled me over. Everywhere I looked, there was something more to see. Botanical prints, a cross section of pomegranates, a…

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It was her first book, an indigo cover with a silver moonflower, an art nouveau flower, I traced my finger along the…

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“They can't touch us. We're the Vikings. We go into battle without armor for the flush and the blood of it.”

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“But I knew one more thing. That people who denied who they were or where they had been were in the greatest danger.”

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“To dare to see is to steal fire from the Gods. This is mankind's destiny, the engine which fuels us as a race. Three…

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This is what happens when you fall in love. You're looking at a natural disaster.

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“We received our coloring from Norsemen. Hairy savages who hacked their gods to pieces and hung the flesh from trees. We are the ones…

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¨Loneliness is the human condition. Cultivate it. The way it tunnels into you allows your soul room to grow. Never expect to outgrow loneliness.…

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I was tired of men. Hanging in doorways, standing too close, men who made you love them then changed their minds.

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