All CHARLES BUKOWSKI Quotes about “Art”

“An artist is a man who says a difficult thing in a simple way”
“An intellectual says a simple thing in a hard way. An artist says a hard thing in a simple way.”
“Great art is horseshit, buy tacos.”
“great writers are indecent people they live unfairly saving the best part for paper. good human beings save the world so that bastards like me can keep creating art, become immortal. if you read this after I am dead it means I made it.”
“Any asshole can chase a skirt, art takes discipline.”
“The Difference Between Art and Life is that Art is More Bearable”
“escape from the black widow spider is a miracle as great as art. what a web she can weave slowly drawing you to her she'll embrace you then when she's satisfied she'll kill you still in her embrace and suck the blood from you.”
“To create art means to be crazy alone forever.”
“the way to create art is to burn and destroy ordinary concepts and to substitute them with new truths that run down from the top of the head and out of the heart”
“To do a dull thing with style-now that's what I call art.”
“Style is the answer to everything. A fresh way to approach a dull or dangerous thing. To do a dull thing with style is preferable to doing a dangerous thing without it. To do a dangerous thing with style is what I call art.”
“beware the average man the average woman beware their love, their love is average seeks average but there is genius in their hatred there is enough genius in their hatred to kill you to kill anybody not wanting solitude not understanding solitude they will attempt to destroy anything that differs from their own not being able to create art they will not understand art they will consider their failure as creators only as a failure of the world”
“I remembered my New Orleans days, living on two five-cent candy bars a day for weeks at a time in order to have leisure to write. But starvation, unfortunately, didn't improve art. It only hindered it. A man's soul was rooted in his stomach. A man could write much better after eating a porterhouse steak and drinking a pint of whiskey than he could ever write after eating a nickel candy bar. The myth of the starving artist was a hoax.”
“A woman must be nursed into subsistence by love, where a man can become stronger by being hated." - from 'Cows in Art Class”
“Bullfighting can be an art Boxing can be an art Loving can be an art Opening a can of sardines can be an art”
“I should think that many of our poets, the honest ones, will confess to having no manifesto. It is a painful confession but the art of poetry carries its own powers without having to break them down into critical listings. I do not mean that poetry should be raffish and irresponsible clown tossing off words into the void. But the very feeling of a good poem carries its own reason for being... Art is its own excuse, and itâ€™s either Art or itâ€™s something else. Itâ€™s either a poem or a piece of cheese.”
“To me Art (poetry) is a continuous and continuing process and that when a man fails to write good poetry he fails to live fully or well.”
“Art is its own excuse, and it's either Art or it's something else. It's either a poem or a piece of cheese.”

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