Art Quote by Etgar Keret Download Open image “I think there are some artists whose works are misanthropic.” — Etgar Keret ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.9 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Art Artist Misanthropic Thinking
I'm not saying that I don't experience people in life as evil, but writing is not a place of alienation; writing is the place… — Etgar Keret Copy Share Image
Great artists treasure their time with a bitter and snarling miserliness. — Catherine Drinker Bowen Copy Share Image
Artists probably should have some impenetrable aspects of themselves. — Simon Callow Copy Share Image
The only artists I have ever known who are personally delightful are bad artists. Good artists exist simply in what they make, and consequently… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“Artists are dishonest creatures really. They foist their version of reality upon us while making it all up. Writers, painters, musicians, auteurs—they’re all the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Any artist who fails to engage with society and the vulnerability of the individual in a cruel existence should not style him-or herself an… — Lena Andersson Copy Share Image
I think that all artists, regardless of degree of talent, are a painful, paradoxical combination of certainty and uncertainty, of arrogance and humility, constantly… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
There's a cultural conviction that any 'artist' must have personal suffering to back up their work, otherwise there's something undeserved and therefore inauthentic about… — Jenny Diski Copy Share Image
“There should be an age limit for patients, he thinks as he takes off his shoes. You just have to say to them, "You… — Etgar Keret Copy Share Image
I usually start writing stories from tone and not from content - kind of like people who create music and invent the lyrics later… — Etgar Keret Copy Share Image
Rabbits are played. Nowadays it's all about the turtles. Tell them it's a ninja, they'll freak. — Etgar Keret Copy Share Image
“She said I should pick the hall and the date and whatever I want, because it really doesn’t matter to her. That isn’t the… — Etgar Keret Copy Share Image
Often in writing programs, articulation and clarity are more important than what you actually say. — Etgar Keret Copy Share Image
I write in a slangy colloquial speech that has not been common in the Israeli tradition of writing, and that is one of the… — Etgar Keret Copy Share Image
I write what needs to be written the way that seems genuinely right. If what comes out of it are stories, then it is… — Etgar Keret Copy Share Image
Collaborating with your wife is amazing because you are doing something together with a person you truly love and know and discover things about… — Etgar Keret Copy Share Image
Sometimes, when you are in a really constrained situation, it makes you more focused about what you want to say and where you're heading.… — Etgar Keret Copy Share Image
Being published in Arabic is a strong and consistent wish I have. I live in the Middle East and want to be in some… — Etgar Keret Copy Share Image
“And suddenly the driver remembered how he'd once promised himself that if he became God in the end, he'd be merciful and kind, and… — Etgar Keret Copy Share Image
True works of art contain their own theory and give us the measurement according to which we should judge them. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Before Noah, men having only water to drink, could not find the truth. Accordingly...they became abominably wicked, and they were justly exterminated by the… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
“Hear the sum of the whole matter in the compass of one brief word — every art possessed by man comes from Prometheus.” — Aeschylus Copy Share Image
I think most artists feel like they're outside society - no matter how many accolades they receive, or how much money is in your… — Aaron Rose Copy Share Image
The capacity to be puzzled is the premise of all creation, be it in art or in science. — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
That's the great secret of creativity. You treat ideas like cats: you make them follow you. — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“So, really," continued Jacob as if this were perfectly normal to expound on art in these circumstances, "when you think about it, the artists… — Justina Chen Headley Copy Share Image
“There are two options in art; either to adopt philosophical life by dissecting art, or to write your own philosophical life and claim it… — Taf Teh Copy Share Image
The house has to serve comfort. The work of art is revolutionary; the house is conservative. — Adolf Loos Copy Share Image
During human progress, every science is evolved out of its corresponding art. — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
In literature and art memory is a synonym for invention. It is the life-blood of imagination, which faints and dies when the veins are… — Robert Aris Willmott Copy Share Image
I think a business guy is different from an artist. They walk different paths. Artists create the best outputs when they're having fun. And… — G-Dragon Copy Share Image
