"Was it confusing because it was artistic, or……" — Joyce Carol Oates

"Was it confusing because it was artistic, or artistic because it was confusing?"

— Joyce Carol Oates

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312 Quotes by Joyce Carol Oates

Joyce Carol Oates has 312 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

The suicide does not play the game, does not observe the rules. He leaves the party too soon, and leaves…
The institution of marriage is just formalizing an emotion, an attempt to make it seem permanent. The emotion will last…
I write so much because my cat sits on my lap. She purrs so I don't want to get up.…
The body can't distinguish between cleansing and punishing for the body is ignorant, and mute besides.
Alone, she took hot baths and sat exhausted in the steaming water, wondering at her perpetual exhaustion. All that winter…
Blood transforms the warm bath water and, in it, I see weakly that this was a mistake. The razor's cut…
The brain is a muscle of busy hills, the struggle of unthought things with things eternally thought.
The mere passage of time makes us all exiles.
Running! If there's any activity happier, more exhilarating, more nourishing to the imagination, I can't think of what it might…
Of the widow's countless death-duties there is really just one that matters: on the first anniversary of her husband's death…
Critics sometimes appear to be addressing themselves to works other than those I remember writing.
We are the species that clamors to be lied to.

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More Artistic Quotes

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The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance. — Aristotle
The job of the artist is always to deepen the mystery. — Francis Bacon
I'm not a driven businessman, but a driven artist. I never think about money. Beautiful things make money. — Lord Acton
My concern is to continue respecting my work as I've done since I began as an actor and I could… — Javier Bardem
I cannot belong to a nonprofit organization because when you receive grants, you have to make such great compromises with… — Mikhail Baryshnikov
Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep. — Scott Adams
Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures. — Henry Ward Beecher
My parents were very supportive of me and my artistic endeavours. My father and mother came to every school play… — Jack Black
The difference between a bad artist and a good one is: the bad artist seems to copy a great deal;… — William Blake
Classical music and pop are two different universes, each with its own difficulties, peculiarities, depth and artistic dignity. In Italy,… — Andrea Bocelli
Popularity gets up people's noses. But I understand the importance and the function of popular music. There is an artistic… — Andrea Bocelli
I love power. But it is as an artist that I love it. I love it as a musician loves… — Napoleon Bonaparte

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