"Art Is a Way Out. Do not let……" — Nathanael West
"Art Is a Way Out. Do not let life overwhelm you. When the old paths are choked with the débris of failure, look for newer and fresher paths. Art is just such a path. Art is distilled from suffering."
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Nathanael West
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22 Quotes by Nathanael West
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Like a dead man, only friction could make him warm or violence make him mobile.
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No dream ever entirely disappears. Somewhere it troubles some unfortunate person and some day, when that person has been sufficiently…
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Every child, everywhere; in the whole world there was not one child who was not gravely, sweetly dancing.
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Man spends a great deal of time making order out of chaos, yet insists that the emotions be disordered. I…
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Prayers for the condemned man will be offered on an adding machine. Numbers constitute the only universal language.
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Betty took him for a walk in the zoo and he was amused by her evident belief in the curative…
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Let him ride a horse. He's a cowboy ain't he?
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Feeling is of the heart and nerves and the crudeness of its expression has nothing to do with its intensity.
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Numbers constitute the only universal language.
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It is hard to laugh at the need for beauty and romance, no matter how tasteless, even horrible, the results…
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But whether he was happy or not was hard to say. Probably he was neither, just as a plant is…
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At college, and perhaps for a year afterwards, they had believed in literature, had believed in Beauty and in personal…
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A high heart ought to bear calamities and not flee them, since in bearing them appears the grandeur of the…
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Let each man exercise the art he knows.
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Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them…
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The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.
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Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence,…
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It is Homer who has chiefly taught other poets the art of telling lies skillfully.
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Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and choice, is thought to aim at some good; and for…
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I'd love to go to art school. I'd love to learn how to draw. I'd love to be fluent in…
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There are some forms of religion that are bad, just as there's bad cooking or bad art or bad sex,…
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I think it's important as a filmmaker, as any person working in the arts, that you've got to try new…
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I don't care who you are, you're going to choke in certain matches. You get to a point where your…
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Writing, to me, is simply thinking through my fingers.
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