“The function of the artist,' the Navajo answered, 'is to provide what life does not.” — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
When we accept bad art because it's good politics, we're killing the swan to feed the chickens. — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
Those people who recognise that imagination is reality's master, we call sages, and those who act upon it, we call artists. — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
“That’s the value of artists, isn’t it? Even when they aren’t aware of it, they’re dreaming our dreams for us.” — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
If you take any activity, any art, any discipline, any skill-take it and push it as far as it will go, push… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
Very few people can write in a crowd. This is a very solitary occupation. I have known people more talented than me… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
“Hitchhiking is not a sport. It is not an art. It certainly isn't work, for it requires no particular ability not does… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
I don't have a very high opinion, actually, of the world of criticism - or the practice of criticism. I think I… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
Time passed. Art came off the walls and became rituals. Ritual became religion. Religion spawned science. Science led to big business. And… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
“The longer Ellen Cherry thought about it, the more convinced she became that the mission of the artist in an overtechnologized, overmasculinized… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
I believed in looking at people as individuals, not in groups. I hated groups; still do. And I saw particularly the university,… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
“The ones who’re so upset about everybody not being the same, about competition, about standards of quality, about art objects having ’auras’… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
The trouble with you is that the only way you can communicate is through art. You’ve never learned to communicate your feelings… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
If there’s a thing, a scene, maybe, an image that you want to see real bad, that you need to see but… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
“Both money and art powdered as they are with the romance and poetry of the age are magic. Rather money is magic… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
“After the monkeys came down from the trees and learned to hurl sharp objects, they had had to move into caves for… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
“Beauty! Wasn't that what mattered? Beauty was hardly a popular ideal at that jumpy moment in history. The masses had been desensitized… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
The mission of the artist in an over-technologi zed society, is to call the old magic back to life. — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
In the haunted house of life, art is the only stair that doesn't creak. — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
I like to think of myself as a fiction writer who liked art enough to write about it for a while, and… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
A mockingbird... was heard to blend the songs of 32 different kinds of birds into a 10 minute performance, a virtuoso display… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
When a culture is being dumbed down as effectively as ours is, its narrative arts (literature, film, theatre) seem to vacillate between… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
“Talent was merely the underpinnings. To be an artist, you also had to have nerve. And to maintain nerve, you had to… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
You know a trillion times more about art than me. But I’ve learned that it isn’t necessary to know all that much.… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
Well, Daddy, I used to believe that artists went crazy in the process of creating the beautiful works of art that kept… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
“Boomer had asked her once, in a telephone call from Virginia, “Why does this stuff, these hand-painted hallucinations that don’t do nothin’… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
In times of widespread chaos and confusion, it has been the duty of more advanced human beings--artists, scientists, clowns and philosophers--to create… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
“Mockingbirds are the true artists of the bird kingdom. Which is to say, although they're born with a song of their own,… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
There are times when we can feel destiny close around us like a fist around a doorknob. Sure, we can resist. But a knob… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
Love is the ultimate outlaw. It just won't adhere to any rules. The most any of us can do is to sign on as… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
The party in Alobar’s head, which agitation and anxiety were throwing, now was crashed by a notion: existence can be rearranged. — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
The world is a wonderfully weird place, consensual reality is significantly flawed, no institution can be trusted, certainty is a mirage, security a delusion,… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
Anyone who maintains absolute standards of good and evil is dangerous. As dangerous as a maniac with a loaded revolver. — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
“I believe in everything; nothing is sacred. I believe in nothing; everything is sacred. Ha Ha Ho Ho Hee Hee.” — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
“Love is the ultimate outlaw. It just won't adhere to any rules. The most any of us can do is to sign on as… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
“The glue that holds the natural world together appears to be a harmonious balance of opposites: day and night, light and dark, winter and… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
Zippers are primal and modern at the very same time. On the one hand, your zipper is primitive and reptilian, on the other, mechanical… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
“religion is a paramount contributor to human misery. It is not merely the opium of the masses, it is the cyanide.” — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
She continued weeping until the heat of her tear water, the sheer velocity of its flow, finally obscured the already vague circumstances of its… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
