Art Quote by Frederick Busch

“I don't think the world is particularly responsive to - our world, the culture we are in, to art right now.”

Frederick Busch

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Good art is a form of prayer. It's a way to say what is not sayable.

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What I try to do is read stuff that won't deal with the dangerous dark things I hope I am writing about.

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I love baseball. What I love about baseball is that you are always waiting.

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There is a lack of context in contemporary education. And contemporary consideration - because we live in those interiorities so much. Especially young kids…

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“No matter his joking, I thought, this was a man as given to the miseries as I was. You could look into my dead…

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When you are writing a character, what the character says is obviously crucial. But what the character doesn't say is absolutely as important as…

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I know important literary writers who can't get published.

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I always had good students.

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It's hard to read real fiction. It takes time. It takes a sustained attention.

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History is beautiful stories or scary stories, yeah.

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If a writer is honest, if what is at stake for him can seem to matter to his readers, then his work may be…

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I read a lot of poetry. I read some history.

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True works of art contain their own theory and give us the measurement according to which we should judge them.

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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 water they loved to drink. This good man, Noah, having seen that all his contemporaries had perished by this unpleasant drink, took a dislike to it; and God, to relieve his dryness, created the vine and…

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“Hear the sum of the whole matter in the compass of one brief word — every art possessed by man comes from Prometheus.”

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The capacity to be puzzled is the premise of all creation, be it in art or in science.

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That's the great secret of creativity. You treat ideas like cats: you make them follow you.

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“So, really," continued Jacob as if this were perfectly normal to expound on art in these circumstances, "when you think about it, the artists who make people stop and think, who push the form, who make you uncomfortable, who are laughable, well, they're the ones who get remembered." Idly, Jacob dug a hole in the snow with his shovel and…

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