“The function of the artist,' the Navajo answered, 'is to provide what life does not.” — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
“the Impressionists were able to lead the viewer into mixing color in his or her own eye.” — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
There is a sense in which a painted stick is a stick in bloom. This stick points to the hidden face of… — 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
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
“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
My paintings are very strange - large and empty, like walls. Just the opposite of my writing, which is rich and juicy. — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
“In the life of the individual, an aesthetic sensibility is both more authentic and more commendable than a political or religious one.” — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
Jackson Pollock said once, "I don't really feel that many people in this world are alive." He said, "That's why I like… — 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
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
I go into a gallery or museum, and I realize that I don't have to formulate any opinions if I don't want… — 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
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
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
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
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
“All things considered, I’ve learned more from talking to painters than talking to writers. Not that painters are smarter than writers, such… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
“But, Foley, my lad, it isn't beauty per se that makes wire-walking Zen or makes it art. It's the extremity of the… — 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
