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Art Quotes by Kurt Vonnegut
- The primary benefit of practicing any art, whether well or badly, is that it enables one's soul to grow.
- People should practice an art in order to make their souls grow and not to make money or become famous. Paint a picture. Write.
- Practice any art, music, singing, dancing, acting, drawing, painting, sculpting, poetry, fiction, essays, reportage, no matter how well or badly, not to get money and…
- You don't do art for any other reason than to help your soul grow.
- No one can amount to a damn in the arts if he becomes sweetly reasonable, seeing all sides of a picture, forgiving all sins.
- Literature is the only art in which the audience performs the score.
- The arts are not a way to make a living,
- The practice of art isn't to make a living. It's to make your soul grow.
- If you want to really hurt you parents, and you don't have the nerve to be gay, the least you can do is go into…
- No art is possible without a dance with death.
- You are being suffocated by tradition... Why don't you say, 'I am going to build a life for myself, for my time, and make it…
- To practice any art, no matter how well or badly, is a way to make your soul grow. So do it.
- I realize that some of you may have come in hopes of hearing tips on how to become a professional writer. I say to you,…
- The arts are not a way to make a living. They are a very human way of making life more bearable.
- If you really want to hurt your parents and you don't have nerve enough to be homosexual, the least you can do is go into…
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