Erica Jong Quotes About Art

Quotes about: Art

• I don't know what the definition of pornography is and nobody else does either. Pornography is somebody else's erotica that you don't like. People are interested in their own sexuality and they've always reflected it in their art. End of story.

  Erica Jong

  Art, People, Doe

  "Free-Associating with Erica Jong". Interview with Robin Epstain. Lilith magazine, www.lilith.org. Fall 1995.

• If we ban whatever offends any group in our diverse society, we will soon have no art, no culture, no humor, no satire. Satire is by its nature offensive. So is much art and political discourse. The value of these expressions far outweighs their risk.

  Erica Jong

  Art, Expression, Diverse Society

  Erica Jong (2007). “What Do Women Want?: Essays by Erica Jong”, p.84, Penguin

• It's useful to know how much society's holding you back. My mother would talk about how she was told by the head of her art school that she was the best painter, but that she wouldn't get the biggest prize because she would waste her talent by having children. I think we have to get honest with girls about how they can expect the world to block them, and we have to prepare girls, and ourselves, to break through those blocks.

  Erica Jong

  Girl, Mother, Art

  "Erica Jong on Feminism for the Future". Omega Institute Interview, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 13, 2014.

• art is not advocacy and advocacy is not art.

  Erica Jong

  Art, Activism, Advocacy

  Erica Jong (2007). “What Do Women Want?: Essays by Erica Jong”, p.72, Penguin

• As yet we use our media only for selling things - including, of course, political candidates. What will happen when someone masters the art of selling souls?

  Erica Jong

  Art, Media, Selling Things

  Erica Jong (1994). “The Devil at Large: Erica Jong on Henry Miller”, p.4, Grove Press

• Art is always an energy exchange.

  Erica Jong

  Art, Energy, Art Is

  Erica Jong (1994). “The Devil at Large: Erica Jong on Henry Miller”, p.7, Grove Press

• Art keeps one young, I think, because it keeps one perpetually a beginner, perpetually a child.

  Erica Jong

  Art, Children, Thinking

  Erica Jong (2013). “Shylock's Daughter: A Novel of Love in Venice”, p.62, Open Road Media

• perfectionism is the enemy of art. Since art is essentially divine play, not dogged work, it often happens that as one becomes more professionally driven one also becomes less capriciously playful.

  Erica Jong

  Art, Play, Perfection

  Erica Jong (1985). “Parachutes & kisses”, Signet

• Women's books are kind of discriminated against. If a man writes a book about his family stories, people think of it as literature. If it's a woman, she's 'spilling her guts,' and it's not art.

  Erica Jong

  Art, Book, Writing

• biography is essentially a collaborative art, the latest biographer collaborating with all those who wrote earlier.

  Erica Jong

  Art, Biographies, Biographers

  Erica Jong (2013). “The Devil at Large: Erica Jong on Henry Miller”, p.65, Open Road Media

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