Art Quotes by Jeanette Winterson

“Perhaps art is an eye problem…”

— Jeanette Winterson

Art is enchantment and artists have the right of spells.

— Jeanette Winterson

It is helpful for a woman artist not to have a husband.

— Jeanette Winterson

Journalism encourages haste ... and haste is the enemy of art.

— Jeanette Winterson

I don't understand why people talk of art as a luxury when it's a mind-altering possibility.

— Jeanette Winterson

Art saved me; it got me through my depression and self-loathing, back to a place of innocence.

— Jeanette Winterson

I want to be an art-hero - I want to change the form of the novel.

— Jeanette Winterson

If art, all art, is concerned with truth, then a society in denial will not find much use for it.

— Jeanette Winterson

The rebellion of art is a daily rebellion against the state of living death routinely called real life.

— Jeanette Winterson

There's no such thing as autobiography, there's only art and lies

— Jeanette Winterson

“The asynarte city; two rhythms unconnected, profanity, holiness, and out of that strange bed, art.”

— Jeanette Winterson

Art is a foreign city, and we deceive ourselves when we think it familiar. We have to recognize that the language of…

— Jeanette Winterson

There's a whole generation growing up thinking you shouldn't seek knowledge for its own sake, and that theatre and art and books…

— Jeanette Winterson

“...to create was a fundament, to appreciate, a supplement. Once created, the creature was separate from the creator, and needed no seconding…

— Jeanette Winterson

Art can make a difference because it pulls people up short. It says, don't accept things for their face value; you don't…

— Jeanette Winterson

“Reading's not a luxury, art's not a luxury. It's about your soul, and it's about yourself. And if reading is a luxury,…

— Jeanette Winterson

Sometimes we forget that if we do not encourage new work now, we will lose all touch with the work of the…

— Jeanette Winterson

“Creative work bridges time because the energy of art is not time-bound. If it were we should have no interest in the…

— Jeanette Winterson

What it means to be human is to bring up your children in safety, educate them, keep them healthy, teach them how…

— Jeanette Winterson

“Art is enchantment and artists have the right of spells. ... The success of later Shakespeare is the success of spells, where…

— Jeanette Winterson

Long looking at paintings is equivalent to being dropped into a foreign city, where gradually, out of desire and despair, a few…

— Jeanette Winterson

Naked I came into the world, but brush strokes cover me, language raises me, music rhythms me. Art is my rod and…

— Jeanette Winterson

I think every work of art is an act of faith, or we wouldn't bother to do it. It is a message…

— Jeanette Winterson

“The healing power of art is not a rhetorical fantasy. Fighting to keep language, language became my sanity and my strength. It…

— Jeanette Winterson

“Art is central to all our lives, not just the better-off and educated. . . I know that from my own story,…

— Jeanette Winterson

“True art, when it happens to us, challenges the 'I' that we are. A love-parallel would be just; falling in love challenges…

— Jeanette Winterson

“Woolf worried about the childlessness from time to time, and suffered from the imposed anxiety that she was not, unlike her friend…

— Jeanette Winterson

“What art does is to coax us away from the mechanical and towards the miraculous. The so-called uselessness of art is a…

— Jeanette Winterson

Why should literature be easy? Sometimes you can do what you want to do in a simple, direct way that is absolutely…

— Jeanette Winterson

Two things significantly distinguish human beings from the other animals; an interest in the past and the possibility of language. Brought together…

— Jeanette Winterson