Marilynne Robinson Quotes About Art

Quotes about: Art

• I want to overhear passionate arguments about what we are and what we are doing and what we ought to do. I want to feel that art is an utterance made in good faith by one human being to another. I want to believe there are geniuses scheming to astonish the rest of us, just for the pleasure of it.

  Marilynne Robinson

  Art, Believe, Genius

  Marilynne Robinson (2014). “The Death of Adam: Essays on Modern Thought”, p.4, Picador

• I want to feel that art is an utterance made in good faith by one human being to another.

  Marilynne Robinson

  Art, Utterance, Want

  Marilynne Robinson (2014). “The Death of Adam: Essays on Modern Thought”, p.4, Picador

• The locus of the human mystery is perception of this world. From it proceeds every thought, every art.

  Marilynne Robinson

  Art, Perception, World

  Marilynne Robinson (2012). “When I Was A Child I Read Books”, p.12, Hachette UK

• One of the things that is nice about these old pastors - they were young at the time - who went into the Middle West is that they were real humanists. They were often linguists, for example, and the schools that they established were then, as they are now, real liberal arts colleges where people studied the humanities in a very broad sense. I think that should be reflected in his mind; appropriately, it is.

  Marilynne Robinson

  Art, Real, Nice

  Source: www.pbs.org

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