Quote by James Baldwin
All art is a kind of confession, more or less oblique. All artists

All art is a kind of confession, more or less oblique. All artists, if they are to survive, are forced, at last, to tell the whole story; to vomit the anguish up. – James Baldwin

Other quotes by James Baldwin

Words like freedom, justice, democracy are not common concepts; on the contrary, they are rare. People are not born knowing what these are. It takes enormous and, above all, individual effort to arrive at the respect for other people that these words imply. – James Baldwin

Category:
Humanity
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Children have never been good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them. – James Baldwin

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Listening
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The South is very beautiful but its beauty makes one sad because the lives that people live here, and have lived here, are so ugly. – James Baldwin

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Aesthetic emotion puts man in a state favorable to the reception of erotic emotion. Art is the accomplice of love. Take love away and there is no longer art. – Remy de Gourmont

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The perfection of art is to conceal art. – Quintilian

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Behind unfinished art cries an unfinished artist. – Terri Guillemets

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Real popular culture is folk art – coalminers songs and so forth. – Noam Chomsky

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With me poetry has not been a purpose, but a passion. – Edgar Allan Poe

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From each, according to his ability; to each, according to his need. – Karl Marx

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