"Every major work of art is a transgression, but the artist is not necessarily, by nature, a transgressor."

-- E. L. Doctorow

#Art Quotes #Transgression Quotes #Artist Quotes

“We must cultivate and defend particularity, individuality, and irregularity-life. Human beings do not have a future in the collectivism of bureaucratic states or in the mass society created by capitalism. Every system, by virtue as much of its abstract nature as of its pretension to totality, is the enemy of life. As a forgotten Spanish poet, JosÃ© Moreno Villa, put it with melancholy wit: "I have discovered in symmetry the root of much iniquity."”

Source : Octavio Paz (1987). “1904-1912”, San Diego : Harcourt Brace Jovanovich
“The Latin American has no tribe to fall back on, as the African does, no reliable judiciary to defend his rights as the European does, no social ideal or sacred constitution as the North American does, no pervasive mythology to soften life as it does in Asia, and no even an ideology to subscribe to, as does the Russian or Chinese. Without wealth, what is there left to him but his manhood, to be flaunted and defended at every occasion?”
“The curse should no longer rest upon the world itself, but upon that which is sinful in it, and instead of monastic flight from the world the duty is now emphasized of serving God in the world, in every position in life.”

Source : Abraham Kuyper (2007). “Lectures on Calvinism”, p.30, Cosimo, Inc.
“Everyone would like to have stronger faith. By themselves, the scriptures may not strengthen your faith, but being faithful to what they teach, does. In other words, faith cannot be separated from faithfulness.”
“Ludwig Wittgenstein once said that names are the only things that exist in the world. Maybe that's true, but the problem is that as time passes by, names do not remain the same - even if they don't change.”

Source : Victor Pelevin (2008). “The Sacred Book of the Werewolf: A Novel”, p.10, Penguin
“In the cruel and terrible time in which our generation has been condemned to live on this earth, we must never make peace with evil. We must never become indifferent to others or undemanding of ourselves.”
“Our self image, strongly held, essentially determines what we become.”
“If you make just a straight scary movie, people are just - you don't know what they're thinking.”

You may also like:

Don DeLillo
Writer
Evelyn Nesbit
J. D. Salinger
Writer
Jason Epstein
Editor
John Dos Passos
Novelist
John Updike
Novelist
Joyce Carol Oates
Author
Philip Roth
Novelist
Saul Bellow
Writer