"I shall speak of how melancholy and utopia……" — Gunter Grass
"I shall speak of how melancholy and utopia preclude one another. How they fertilize one another... of the revulsion that follows one insight and precedes the next... of superabundance and surfeit. Of stasis in progress. And of myself, for whom melancholy and utopia are heads and tails of the same coin."
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Gunter Grass
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60 Quotes by Gunter Grass
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Art is so wonderfully irrational, exuberantly pointless, but necessary all the same. Pointless and yet necessary, that's hard for a…
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I have found that words that are loaded with pathos and create a seductive euphoria are apt to promote nonsense.
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It makes me realise that the fantasy of nature is much larger than my own fantasy. I still have things…
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Art is accusation, expression, passion. Art is black charcoal crushing white paper.
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