Ben Okri Quotes About Art

Quotes about: Art

• Magic becomes art when it has nothing to hide.

  Ben Okri

  Art, Magic

  Ben Okri (2014). “A Way of Being Free”, p.69, Head of Zeus

• To poison a nation, poison its stories. A demoralised nation tells demoralised stories to itself. Beware of the storytellers who are not fully conscious of the importance of their gifts, and who are irresponsible in the application of their art: they

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  Art, Poison, Stories

• Creativity is the art of the impossible

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  Art, Creativity, Impossible

  Ben Okri (2014). “A Way of Being Free”, p.71, Head of Zeus

• There ought to be three traditions in the art of humanity: the realistic, the visionary and the wild.

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  Art, Humanity, Three

• Yes, the highest things are beyond words. That is probably why all art aspires to the condition of wordlessness. When literature works on you, it does so in silence, in your dreams, in your wordless moments. Good words enter you and become moods, become the quiet fabric of your being. Like music, like painting, literature too wants to transcend its primary condition and become something higher. Art wants to move into silence, into the emotional and spiritual conditions of the world. Statues become melodies, melodies become yearnings, yearnings become actions.

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  Dream, Spiritual, Art

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