Art Quotes by Kurt Vonnegut

So many people think that practicing an art is a good way to make a living. Practicing an art, no matter how…

— Kurt Vonnegut

“They were all employed full time as actors in a play they understood, that any human being anywhere could understand and applaud.”…

— Kurt Vonnegut

“Future civilizations - better civilizations than this one - are going to judge all men by the extent to which they've been…

— Kurt Vonnegut

“Tremendous concentrations of paper wealth have made it possible for a few persons or institutions to endow certain sorts of human playfulness…

— Kurt Vonnegut

No art is possible without a dance with death.

— Kurt Vonnegut

The arts are not a way to make a living. They are a very human way of making life more bearable.

— Kurt Vonnegut

The practice of art isn't to make a living. It's to make your soul grow.

— Kurt Vonnegut

The function of the artist is to make people like life better than they have before.

— Kurt Vonnegut

“Here is a lesson in creative writing. First rule: Do not use semicolons. They are transvestite hermaphrodites representing absolutely nothing. All they…

— Kurt Vonnegut

“The arts, the arts, the arts - I don't know why it took me so long to realize how important they are.…

— Kurt Vonnegut

“No art is possible without a dance with death, he wrote.”

— Kurt Vonnegut

People should practice an art in order to make their souls grow and not to make money or become famous. Paint a…

— Kurt Vonnegut

“I shouldn't be held responsible for my acts, since I was a political idiot, an artist who could not distinguish between reality…

— Kurt Vonnegut

No one can amount to a damn in the arts if he becomes sweetly reasonable, seeing all sides of a picture, forgiving…

— Kurt Vonnegut

I just don't think people get off on language anymore. Language used to be an elevated art. It used to be for…

— Kurt Vonnegut

The primary benefit of practicing any art, whether well or badly, is that it enables one's soul to grow.

— Kurt Vonnegut

“. . . Practice any art, music, singing, dancing, acting, drawing, painting, sculpting, poetry, fiction, essays, reportage, no matter how well or…

— Kurt Vonnegut

Practice any art, music, singing, dancing, acting, drawing, painting, sculpting, poetry, fiction, essays, reportage, no matter how well or badly, not to…

— Kurt Vonnegut

“There's no question about it. The arts are an extremely high-risk situation. People are willing to take these extraordinary chances to become…

— Kurt Vonnegut

During the Vietnam War, which lasted longer than any war we've ever been in - and which we lost - every respectable…

— Kurt Vonnegut

The world is too serious. To get mad at a work of art-because maybe somebody, somewhere is blowing his stack over what…

— Kurt Vonnegut

Artists use frauds to make human beings seem more wonderful than they really are. Dancers show us human beings who move much…

— Kurt Vonnegut

“The hare of history once more overtakes the tortoise of art.”

— Kurt Vonnegut

“Nowadays, of course, just about our only solvent industry is the merchandising of death, bankrolled by our grandchildren, so that the message…

— Kurt Vonnegut

One thing I hate about school committees today is that they cut arts programs out of the curriculum because they say the…

— Kurt Vonnegut