Logo
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

Most of us are about as eager to be changed as we were to be born, and go through our changes in a similar state of shock. – James Baldwin

Category:
Change
Author
James Baldwin
Read Quote

James Joyce is right about history being a nightmare– but it may be that nightmare from which no one can awaken. People are trapped in history and history in trapped in them. – James Baldwin

Category:
History
Author
James Baldwin
Read Quote

But the relationship of morality and power is a very subtle one. Because ultimately power without morality is no longer power. – James Baldwin

Category:
relationship
Author
James Baldwin
Read Quote
Other Quotes from
Art
category

Jazz is known all over the world as an American musical art form and thats it. No America, no jazz. Ive seen people try to connect it to other countries, for instance to Africa, but it doesnt have a damn thing to do with Africa. – Art Blakey

Category:
Art

The bad gains respect through imitation, the good loses it especially in art. – Friedrich Nietzsche

Category:
Art

A picture is worth a thousand words. – Napoleon Bonaparte

Category:
Art

A man paints with his brains and not with his hands. – Michelangelo

Category:
Art

Random Quotes

People are already finding ways to make their music and play it in front of people and have a life in music, I guess, and I think thats pretty much all you can ask. – David Byrne

Category:
Music

Autumn burned brightly, a running flame through the mountains, a torch flung to the trees. – Faith Baldwin, American Family

Category:
Autumn

No notice is taken of a little evil, but when it increases it strikes the eye. – Aristotle

Category:
Evil

Democratic nations must try to find ways to starve the terrorist and the hijacker of the oxygen of publicity on which they depend. – Margaret Thatcher

Category:
History