SOLD-Kafka Mixed Media or The Anti-Valentine-by Carrie Kravetz

“May I kiss you then? On this miserable paper? I might as well open the window and kiss the night air.”

I’ve been reading a lot lately. I’m in a wonderful book club, and when we get together to discuss our thoughts about  books, I always come to the meetings prepared with passages or quotes about art. It’s so interesting to see the different meanings people take from the same book.  Below are some of the quotes about art/artists I’ve recently underlined, highlighted or circled in my recent literary conquests:

“To be an artist includes much; one must possess many gifts- absolute gifts-which have not been acquired by one’s own effort.And, more over, to succeed, the artist must possess the courageous soul…The brave soul. The soul that dares and defies.”- Kate Chopin in the Awakening

“An artist is always alone – if he is an artist. No, what the artist needs is loneliness”.-Henry Miller in Tropic of Cancer

“The reason I will not exhibit this pictures is that I am afraid that I have shown in it the secret of my soul”- Oscar Wilde in the Picture of Dorian Gray

“If the wold were clear, art would not exist.”-Albert Camus in The Myth of Sisyphus

“Art is the triumph over chaos”-John Cheever in the Stories of John Cheever