The practice of art isn't to make a living. It's to make your soul grow. — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“The function of art is to make people like life more than they do.” — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
That’s the secret of artistic unity. Anybody can achieve it, if he or she will make something with only one person in… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
The canary bird in the coal mine theory of the arts: artists should be treasured as alarm systems. — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
The function of the artist is to make people like life better than they have before. — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“The arts..are a very human way of making life more bearable. Practicing an art, no matter how well or badly, is a… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
The artist makes his living by pretending, by putting it in a meaningful hole though no such holes exist. — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“Participation in an art, although unrewarded by wealth or fame...is a way to make one's soul grow.” — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
No one can amount to a damn in the arts if he becomes sweetly reasonable, seeing all sides of a picture, forgiving… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
The paintings by dead men who were poor most of their lives are the most valuable pieces in my collection. And if… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
I want you to adore the Universe, to be easily delighted, but to be prompt as well with impatience with those artists… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“The painter pondered the mournful puzzle of life demanding to be born and, once born, demanding to be fruitful ... to multiply… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
I think... it is somehow very useful, and maybe even essential, for a fine artist to have to somehow make his peace… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
It often is a terrible insult to some families if one of the kids turns out to be an artist and that's… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
The arts are not a way to make a living. They are a very human way of making life more bearable. Practicing… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“Contemplating a purported work of art is a social activity. Either you have a rewarding time, or you don't. You don't have… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
I'm an old guy, and I was protesting during the Vietnam War. We killed fifty Asians for every loyal American. Every artist… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
I'm an old guy, and I was protesting during the Vietnam War. We killed fifty Asians for every loyal American. Every artist… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
During the Vietnam War, which lasted longer than any war we've ever been in - and which we lost - every respectable… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“If you want to really hurt you parents, and you don’t have the nerve to be gay, the least you can do… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
The arts put man at the center of the universe, whether he belongs there or not. Military science, on the other hand,… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Artists use frauds to make human beings seem more wonderful than they really are. Dancers show us human beings who move much… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“Future civilizations - better civilizations than this one - are going to judge all men by the extent to which they've been… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
If you want to really hurt you parents, and you don't have the nerve to be gay, the least you can do… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
The painting was framed in a misty view of sky, sea, and valley. Newt's painting was small, black, and warty. It consisted… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
If you really want to hurt your parents and you don't have nerve enough to be homosexual, the least you can do… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
The arts are not a way to make a living. They are a very human way of making life more bearable. — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
You are being suffocated by tradition... Why don't you say, 'I am going to build a life for myself, for my time,… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Artists are useful to society because they are so sensitive. They are supersensitive. They keel over like canaries in coal mines filled… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
There is a strong feeling in the Middle West that the artist is not pulling his own weight no matter how hard… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
I've been drawing all my life, just as a hobby, without really having shows or anything. It's just an agreeable thing to… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Much of the blame is the malarkey that artists have created to glorify war, which as we all know, is nonsense, and… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“She had never seen me draw–because not drawing and forgetting everything I knew about art, I thought, was the magic key to… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“During that war we had a word for extreme man-made disorder which was fubar, an acronym for 'fucked up beyond all recognition.'… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“You must bloom as a writer and I must bloom as a painter. Everything else about us is uninteresting.” — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“Have a good nap, did you?” said the porter. “Yes,” said Billy. “Man,” said the porter, “you sure had a hard-on.” — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“I told him that if we doubted that we are demons in Hell, he should read The Mysterious Stranger, which Mark Twain wrote in… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“Thomas Jefferson High School [..] His high school was named after a slave owner who was also one of the world’s greatest theoreticians on… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“I had a certain amount of skill as a dramatist, and Dr. Goebbels wanted me to use it” — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
I was some of the mud that got to sit up and look around. Lucky me, lucky mud. — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“The town was Newport, Rhode Island, U.S.A., Earth, Solar System, Milky Way.” — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“Her face was one of a kind, a surprising variation that made observers think, Yes--that would be another very nice way for people to… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“You finally fell in love, I see,” said Salo. “Only an Earthling year ago,” said Constant. “It took us that long to realize that… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“Like all Earthlings at the point of death, Mary Young sent faint reminders of herself to those who had known her. She released a… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“And contrast Mary Kathleen, if you will, with my wife Ruth, the Ophelia of the death camps, who believed that even the most intelligent… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
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