Sandra Cisneros Quotes About Art

Quotes about: Art

• I always tell people that I became a writer not because I went to school but because my mother took me to the library. I wanted to become a writer so I could see my name in the card catalog.

  Sandra Cisneros

  Mother, Art, Writing

  FaceBook post by Sandra Cisneros from Oct 15, 2011

• Once you can open yourself to joy, you feel as if you've transformed your sadness into illumination, which is really all that art is. All we want to do is transform the negative emotions into light. We want to compost them into light.

  Sandra Cisneros

  Art, Sadness, Light

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

• Many books that you read, they have those disclaimers that say that, "None of the events and none of the people are based on real life" and so on... Well, I don't believe that. I think that as human beings many people touch us, especially people we love the most and we can't help but do character sketches when we go to our art.

  Sandra Cisneros

  Art, Real, Book

  Source: www.identitytheory.com

• When you have a flourishing of the economy you have a flourishing of the arts.

  Sandra Cisneros

  Art, Economy, Flourishing

  Source: www.identitytheory.com

• I was raised a Catholic, but with very liberal parents, so I had to find my spirituality. I've been looking for it since I was a child. I would find it in pieces of art, music, flowers, trees. Now I've come full circle finding God in clouds, flowers, and trees.

  Sandra Cisneros

  Art, Children, Flower

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

• How can art make a difference in the world?

  Sandra Cisneros

  Art, Differences, Making A Difference

  Sandra Cisneros (2015). “A House of My Own: Stories from My Life”, p.296, Vintage

• Heartbreak allows us to also experience joy and love but you have to walk through heartbreak to even know what joy is. Heartbreak is a constant and it is even necessary. It allows us the opportunity of introspection and exploration. Those processes are what is necessary to write and engage in the arts.

  Sandra Cisneros

  Art, Writing, Opportunity

  "The Rumpus Interview With Sandra Cisneros". Interview with Olivia, therumpus.net. January 13, 2016.

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