"You need the art in order to love…" — Nicholson Baker

"You need the art in order to love the life."

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59 Quotes by Nicholson Baker

Nicholson Baker has 59 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

Spoon the sauce over the ice cream. It will harden. This is what you have been working for.
Haven't you felt a peculiar sort of worry about the chair in your living room that no one sits in?
I keep thinking I'll enjoy suspense novels, and sometimes I do. I've read about 20 Dick Francis novels.
It's true that I don't rearrange that much in the fiction, but I feel if you change even one name…
When I first wanted to be a writer, I learned to write prose by reading poetry.
There is no good word for stomach; just as there is no good word for girlfriend. Stomach is to girlfriend…
Shoes are the first adult machines we are given to master.
In my case, adulthood itself was not an advance, although it was a useful waymark.
I’ve always thought of myself as shy,
You almost believe that you will never come to the end of a roll of tape; and when you do,…
If you write every day, you're going to write a lot of things that aren't terribly good, but you're going…
The question any novel is really trying to answer is, Is life worth living?

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More Art Quotes

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A high heart ought to bear calamities and not flee them, since in bearing them appears the grandeur of the… — Pietro Aretino
Let each man exercise the art he knows. — Aristophanes
Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them… — Aristotle
The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance. — Aristotle
Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence,… — Aristotle
It is Homer who has chiefly taught other poets the art of telling lies skillfully. — Aristotle
Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and choice, is thought to aim at some good; and for… — Aristotle
I'd love to go to art school. I'd love to learn how to draw. I'd love to be fluent in… — Billie Joe Armstrong
There are some forms of religion that are bad, just as there's bad cooking or bad art or bad sex,… — Karen Armstrong
I think it's important as a filmmaker, as any person working in the arts, that you've got to try new… — Darren Aronofsky
I don't care who you are, you're going to choke in certain matches. You get to a point where your… — Arthur Ashe
Writing, to me, is simply thinking through my fingers. — Isaac Asimov

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