"Art is so wonderfully irrational, exuberantly pointless, but necessary all the same. Pointless and yet necessary, that's hard for a puritan to understand."

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Source : New Statesman and Society interview, 1990.

Gunter Grass

#Art Quotes #Puritan Quotes #Irrational Quotes

“As soon as the dirt is hitting the casket, it'll all be forgotten.”
“I must be dead for there is nothing but blue snow and the furious silence of a gunshot.”
“Influence: What you think you have until you try to use it.”
“Country people give me more than writers, and country places than towns.”
“People quickly grow accustomed to being the slaves of mystery.”

Source : Guillaume Apollinaire, Peter F. Read (2004). “The Cubist Painters”, p.6, Univ of California Press
“I can not forget Melina Mercouri in black dress at 'Never on Sunday'.”
“And when I'd be reporting in Israel, Palestinians would say, the Jews they're not like us, and the Jews would say the same things about the Palestinians, they don't want what we want. And I never bought it as a reporter and I don't buy it as a novelist. I think, you know, the sound of somebody crying for their lost child sounds the same.”
“The fastest way to succeed is to look as if you're playing by somebody else's rules, while quietly playing by your own.”

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