Jonathan Lethem Quotes About Art

Quotes about: Art

• For me, music is sort of the art that I can't incorporate into my person the way I want to.

  Jonathan Lethem

  Art, Want, Way

  Interview with Christopher Bahn, www.avclub.com. April 5, 2007.

• I never have been a musician; I'm not actually capable. Because I can't even pretend to acquire the gift, all of my first feelings about art are still attached to music. I look at it yearningly, I look at it wonderingly. I behold it from afar, as something unattainable, something outside of myself, from which I can take nourishment, but I can't domesticate and master.

  Jonathan Lethem

  Art, Feelings, Musician

  "Music, Influence, and 'Deeply Unnecessary' Art". Interview with Ben Arthur, logger.believermag.com. March 17, 2015.

• The arts and a belief in the values of the civil rights movement, in the overwhelming virtue of diversity, these were our religion. My parents worshipped those ideals.

  Jonathan Lethem

  Art, Rights, Diversity

  "Straight outta Brooklyn" by Tim Adams, www.theguardian.com. December 13, 2003.

• I listen to music all the time. I write while listening to music. And I tell myself that the music nourishes the art forms that I do master and domesticate, and have authority over.

  Jonathan Lethem

  Art, Writing, Listening

  "Music, Influence, and "Deeply Unnecessary" Art". Interview with Ben Arthur, logger.believermag.com. March 17, 2015.

• I got into underground comics fairly early on and kind of wandered away from the superhero stuff, but I was an art student and I was drawing a lot as a kid.

  Jonathan Lethem

  Art, Kids, Drawing

• I've just finished reading Reality Hunger and I'm lit up by it-astonished, intoxicated, ecstatic, overwhelmed. . . . It really is an urgent book: a piece of art-making itself, a sublime, exciting, outrageous, visionary volume.

  Jonathan Lethem

  Art, Book, Reading

• I'd have been a filmmaker or a cartoonist or something else which extended from the visual arts into the making of narratives if I hadn't been able to shift into fiction.

  Jonathan Lethem

  Art, Fiction, Narrative

• I'm a firm believer that there are no rules in art. Every trajectory is different.

  Jonathan Lethem

  Art, Different, Firm

  Source: www.believermag.com

• What's beautiful about art is that it circumscribes a space, a physical and mental space. If you try to put the entire world into every page, you turn out chaos.

  Jonathan Lethem

  Beautiful, Art, Space

  Source: www.believermag.com

• Art is about eliminating almost everything in order to focus on the thing that you need to talk about.

  Jonathan Lethem

  Art, Order, Focus

  Source: www.believermag.com

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