Artist Quotes by Samuel R. Delany

8 Artist quotes by Samuel R. Delany

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Delany’s speculative fiction pushes boundaries, and his reflections on creators echo that daring. These eight quotes give a concise glimpse into his vision of artistic exploration.

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“In a hundred years they may both be sciences. Fine. But today a person who learns the rules of art well is…

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The artist has some internal experience that produces a poem, a painting, a piece of music. Spectators submit themselves to the work,…

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It's frightening for one artist to see another one, any other one turn away from art.

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I'm not about either entertaining or instructing. The entertaining and instructing are secondary fallout from the fundamental thing, which is basically to…

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I think a 23-page ordinary comic is an investment for the artist, but if you're doing something 60 to 104 pages, that's…

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But I realized something. About art. And psychiatry. They're both self-perpetuating systems. Like religion. All three of them promise you a sense…

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Ah, well, during the Middle Ages, religion was often able to redeem art. Today, however, art is about the only thing that…

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It’s a very new, not to mention vulgar, idea that the spectator’s experience should be identical to, or even have anything to…

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A poet is wounded into speech, and he examines these wounds, meticulously, to discover how to heal them. The bad poet harangues at the…

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'You spin in the sky, the world spins under you, and you step from land to land, while we . . .' She turned…

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What you are will make you what you will become.

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“I wanted to get out, Vyme, to keep going and not be trapped, to be free… only I was cruel. I had the chance…

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A number of things in 'Dhalgren' are just meant to function as mysteries. They're mysteries when the book begins, and they're mysteries when the…

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The pulp hero, though he may be a renegade, is a guy who doesn't feel. Anything. Ever. And for the adolescent male - pummeled…

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“they were nice in a useless sort of way, which is, after all, the only way to be truly nice.”

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From 1968 on, I was pretty much the black, gay SF writer.

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“Neurotics, proceed with delusions of grandeur. Napoleon Bonaparte, take the lead. Jesus Christ, bring up the rear. Simulate severe depression. Non-communicative with repressed hostility.”

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