Art Quote by Gunter Grass

“Art is accusation, expression, passion. Art is a fight to the finish between black charcoal and white paper.” quote by Gunter Grass — Download Open image

“Art is accusation, expression, passion. Art is a fight to the finish between black charcoal and white paper.”

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Melancholy has ceased to be an individual phenomenon, an exception. It has become the class privilege of the wage earner, a mass state of…

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Melancholy and utopia are heads and tails of the same coin.

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If work and leisure are soon to be subordinated to this one utopian principle - absolute busyness - then utopia and melancholy will come…

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I have often supported Israel, I have often visited the country and want the country to exist and at last find peace with its…

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Whenever there has been talk of exterminating rats, others, who were not rats, have been exterminated.

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“You can begin a story in the middle and create confusion by striking out boldly, backward and forward. You can be modern, put aside all mention of time and distance and, when the whole thing is done, proclaim, or let someone else proclaim, that you have finally, at the last moment, solved the space-time problem. Or you can declare at…

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There must be reasons why we men are so hipped on breasts as if we'd all been weaned too soon.

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Often I had to imagine the things I needed. I learned very early to read amidst noise. And so I started writing and drawing…

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Art is hard for a puritan to understand.

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What does a river like the Vistula carry away with it? Everything that goes to pieces: wood, glass, pencils, pacts ... chairs, bones, and…

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Love That’s it: The cashless commerce. The blanket always too short. The loose connexion. To search behind the horizon. To brush fallen leaves with four shoes and in one’s mind to rub bare feet. To let and rent hearts; or in a room with shower and mirror, in a hired car, bonnet facing the moon, wherever innocence stops and burns…

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“They had tried doing it by themselves in her room with a cheap onion, but it wasn't the same. You needed an audience. It…

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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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