Junot Diaz Quotes About Art

Quotes about: Art

• The whole culture is telling you to hurry, while the art tells you to take your time. Always listen to the art.

  Junot Diaz

  Art, Culture, Take Your Time

• Art has a way of confronting us, of reminding us, of engaging us, in what it means to be human, and what it means to be human is to be flawed, is to be contradictory, is to be often weak, and yet despite all of these what we would consider drawbacks, that we're also quite beautiful. Spin is the opposite.

  Junot Diaz

  Beautiful, Art, Mean

  "Author Explains Tales Of New Vision, New Life". "Tell Me More" with Michel Martin, www.npr.org. June 10, 2009.

• The art is just really mysterious. If I understood it more, maybe I would write more.

  Junot Diaz

  Art, Writing, Mysterious

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

• My art feels like it's real disobedient. I can fill notebooks with observations and maybe they find their way into the work unconsciously, which is great. I've never been able to directly plug, like to take a little snip that I've picked up on the street and transfer it into a story. I don't know what's wrong, but it never works that way.

  Junot Diaz

  Notebook, Art, Real

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

• Any art worth its name requires you to be fundamentally lost for a very long time.

  Junot Diaz

  Art, Names, Long

• Mexico City is the center of art and culture and politics and has been and continues to be for Latin America in a way that I think really called to me as an artistic person, as someone that was interested in the politics of Latin America, you know. God, every single famous person in Latin American history and art and politics seems to have found their way to Mexico City.

  Junot Diaz

  Art, Latin, Thinking

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

• Art is not boosterism, it's not propaganda, and it's not spin, but that's not something that art does, and nor has it historically ever done it.

  Junot Diaz

  Art, Doe, Done

  "Author Explains Tales Of New Vision, New Life". "Tell Me More" with Michel Martin, www.npr.org. June 10, 2009.

• For kind of sophisticated art I'm interested in, the larger structural rebuke has to be so subtle that it has to be distributed at an almost sub-atomic level. Otherwise, you fall into the kind of preachy, moralistic fable that I don't think makes for good literature.

  Junot Diaz

  Art, Fall, Thinking

• As for my slowness as a writer - that's been a struggle, no question. We live in a culture that values and rewards machine-speed productivity. Even the arts are expected to conform to the Taylor model of productivity.

  Junot Diaz

  Art, Struggle, Culture

  "The Sunday Rumpus Interview: Junot Díaz". Interview with Gina Frangello, therumpus.net. September 30, 2012.

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