Samuel R. Delany Quotes About Art

Quotes about: Art

• But I realized something. About art. And psychiatry. They're both self-perpetuating systems. Like religion. All three of them promise you a sense of inner worth and meaning, and spend a lot of time telling you about the suffering you have to go through to achieve it.

  Samuel R. Delany

  Art, Self, Promise

  FaceBook post by Samuel R. Delany from May 29, 2011

• I was a kid who liked art and theater and dance and music, but if you lived in Harlem, high culture was somewhere else, and it wasn't black.

  Samuel R. Delany

  Art, Kids, Somewhere Else

• The artist has some internal experience that produces a poem, a painting, a piece of music. Spectators submit themselves to the work, which generates an inner experience for them. But historically it's a very new, not to mention vulgar, idea that the spectator's experience should be identical to, or even have anything to do with, the artist's. That idea comes from an over-industrialized society which has learned to distrust magic.

  Samuel R. Delany

  Art, Ideas, Magic

  FaceBook post by Samuel R. Delany from Jan 16, 2017

• It's frightening for one artist to see another one, any other one turn away from art.

  Samuel R. Delany

  Art, Artist, Turns

• In the arts, people are always waiting for someone or some movement to "fulfill her/its/his promise." Then, half-a-dozen or a dozen years on, others begin to realize that, really, something extraordinary was actually happening.

  Samuel R. Delany

  Art, Years, People

  Samuel R. Delany, Carl Howard Freedman (2009). “Conversations with Samuel R. Delany”, p.94, Univ. Press of Mississippi

• Ah, well, during the Middle Ages, religion was often able to redeem art. Today, however, art is about the only thing that can redeem religion, and the clerics will never forgive us for that.

  Samuel R. Delany

  Art, Forgiving, Age

  "Dhalgren". Book by Samuel R. Delany, January, 1975.

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