What did Joyce Carol Oates mean by: Great art is cathartic; it is always moral. - Joyce Carol Oates Author · USA Copy
+ Not to be alone. To be spared the possibility of knowing oneself, in aloneness. Feraz Zeid, January 12, 2024January 12, 2024, Joyce Carol Oates, Knowing, Possibility, 0 - Joyce Carol Oates Author · USA
+ There is nothing “ordinary” about reality. Feraz Zeid, June 4, 2023December 12, 2023, Joyce Carol Oates, Ordinary, Reality, 0 - Joyce Carol Oates Author · USA
+ Be your own editor/critic. Sympathetic but merciless! Feraz Zeid, November 5, 2023December 26, 2023, Joyce Carol Oates, Critics, Editors, Sympathetic, 0 - Joyce Carol Oates Author · USA
+ Like a flame is real enough, isn’t it, while it’s burning?-even if there’s a time it goes out? Feraz Zeid, January 11, 2024January 11, 2024, Joyce Carol Oates, Burning, Flames, 0 - Joyce Carol Oates Author · USA
+ The denial of language is a suicidal one and we pay for it with our own lives. Feraz Zeid, January 12, 2024January 12, 2024, Joyce Carol Oates, Denial, Suicidal, Writing, 0 - Joyce Carol Oates Author · USA
+ We are linked by blood, and blood is memory without language. Feraz Zeid, January 12, 2024January 12, 2024, Joyce Carol Oates, Ancestry, Blood, Memories, 0 - Joyce Carol Oates Author · USA
+ Stories come to us as wraiths requiring precise embodiments. Feraz Zeid, August 8, 2023December 12, 2023, Joyce Carol Oates, Embodiment, Stories, 0 - Joyce Carol Oates Author · USA
+ Much in our lives is chance. Feraz Zeid, October 10, 2023December 26, 2023, Joyce Carol Oates, Chance, Our Lives, 0 - Joyce Carol Oates Author · USA
I’ve taught, and the first thing I did when I taught art, was not to teach art. Explain - Louise Berliawsky Nevelson Sculptor · Ukraine
Appreciation of art is a moral erection, otherwise mere dilettantism. Explain - Jean Cocteau Artist · France
Lying is the only art form that the public sanctions and instinctively prefers to reality. Explain - Jean Cocteau Artist · France
Film will only became an art when its materials are as inexpensive as pencil and paper. - Jean Cocteau Artist · France
Look out! Be on your guard, because alone of all the arts, music moves all around you. - Jean Cocteau Artist · France
Art is a language, an instrument of knowledge, an instrument of communication. - Jean Dubuffet Artist · France
The real function of art is to change mental patterns … making new thought possible. - Jean Dubuffet Artist · France
