Paul Auster Quotes About Quality

Quotes about: Quality

• For the first time in his life, he stopped worrying about results, and as a consequence the terms “success” and “failure” had suddenly lost their meaning for him. The true purpose of art was not to create beautiful objects, he discovered. It was a method of understanding, a way of penetrating the world and finding one’s place in it, and whatever aesthetic qualities an individual canvas might have were almost an incidental by-product of the effort to engage oneself in this struggle, to enter into the thick of things.

  Paul Auster

  Beautiful, Art, Struggle

  Paul Auster (2010). “Moon Palace: A Novel (Penguin Ink)”, p.131, Penguin

• Bodies count, of course - they count more than we're willing to admit - but we don't fall in love with bodies, we fall in love with each other. We all know that, but the moment we go beyond a catalogue of surface qualities and appearances, words begin to fail us, to crumble apart in mystical confusions and cloudy, unsubstantial metaphors.

  Paul Auster

  Falling In Love, Confusion, Quality

  Paul Auster (2009). “Oracle Night: A Novel”, p.131, Henry Holt and Company

• Writing has always had a tactile quality for me. It's a physical experience.

  Paul Auster

  Writing, Quality, Tactile

• Reading, at the deepest level, is a physical experience. Most people are not attuned to this, most people don't learn how to read - poetry for example, or high-quality prose. They're used to reading magazines and newspapers, which are only of the mind, but not of the body.

  Paul Auster

  Reading, People, Mind

  Interview with Nathalie Cochoy and Sophie Vallas, transatlantica.revues.org. March 2014.

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