Rachel Kushner Quotes

If you think about it enough to have a really articulate answer, you're not doing it right. That's how I feel about art. If your thought process could take you to knowing exactly what you're doing and why, there would be no point in making the art. It would become like propaganda. It's more nebulous than that.

Art is magic, not logic. This craze for the logical spirit in irrational shape is part of the present harmful mania for uniformity.

Art is ruled uniquely by the imagination.

Art, that great undogmatized church.

People write music, and the music is out there for people to interpret it how they want to.

A mathematical proof is beautiful, but when you're finished, it's really only about one thing. A story can be about many things.

If you're not trying to be real, you don't have to get it right. That's art.

I had some great times doing competitions, but I have always been more into making movies because making movies is more about art and expressing yourself in a creative way.

I can't think of anything outside of having the gift yourself and creating yourself. I can't think of the next better thing to do than being able to put it back. Creative expression, I think, is vital to the success of any society.... A society without art will die.

Skill in writing frees you to write what you want to write. It may also show you what you want to write. Craft enables art.

Art is like a fart for the soul. Better out than in.

Art is a platform where self-expression should not be limited. I'm here to inspire. There is no age limit to that.

Being a broadcaster, man, you just sort of paint from a blank canvas, in a way.

My definition of art has always been the same. It is about freedom of expression. I don’t think anybody can separate art from politics. The intention to separate [the two] is itself a very political intention.

Art is the expression of imagination, not the reproduction of reality.

Art ... is a force which blows the roof off the cave where we crouch imprisoned.

I did best when I had least truth for my subjects.

I don't know what Art is but I know some things it isn't when I see them.

Writing is the one art form that really should allow you to hang yourself.

I'm a firm believer that there are no rules in art. Every trajectory is different.

Art isn't about following the rules. It's about breaking them.

Art is a concrete and personal and rather childish thing after all - no matter what people do to graft it into science and make it sociological and psychological; it is no good at all unless it is let alone to be itself - a game of make-believe, or re-production, very exciting and delightful to people who have an ear for it or an eye for it.

In art we are once again able to do all the things we have forgotten; we are able to walk on water; we speak to the angels who call us; we move, unfettered, among the stars.

Art does not tolerate reason.

I get to draw what I like to draw, basically people hangin' around, and write very humanistic kinds of situations and characters. But I do also like to draw adventure stories - more in terms of drawing them than writing them - and letting my imagination go wild.