Art Quote by Rachel Kushner

“I understand that art is a necessary component of a civilized society, but you cannot just go around shooting people. That's going to be…

— Kevin Wilson

“That is the bitterness of art: you see a good effect, and some nonsense about sense continually intervenes.”

— Robert Louis Stevenson

“The photos stirred feelings she couldn't quite frame in words, and this, she decided, must mean they were true works of art.”

— Celeste Ng

“It never ocurred to him that he was a passive thing, acted upon by an influence above and beyond Gloria, that he was merely…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

“It was all very purposeful and sad when Anthony told Gloria one night that he wanted, above all things, to be killed. But, as…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

“Gloria was sure she wanted but to read and dream and be fed tomato sandwiches and lemonades by some angelic servant still in a…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

“[Her father] never minded when there was nothing to shoot, and she never minded when there was. The harsh crack of the rifle and…

— Sonja Yoerg

“Art is a gun and medicine at the same time.”

— Alin Sav

“All her life, from the time she was eight or nine years old, Gloria had relied on a neat, nearly automatic little trick of…

— Richard Yates

“...she forced herself to relax her shoulders and affect a tone of bored insouciance that the Widow would have approved, and said, "I shall…

— Donna Thorland

“All this talk about what a marvelous future science'll bring us? Art can change things just as much.' She stubbed out her cigarette. 'Maybe…

— Ellen Klages

“Life is a bleak place. Sometimes you have to learn how to shoot first.”

— Tahereh Mafi