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Sherwood Anderson Quotes about Art

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The object of art is not to make salable pictures. It is to save yourself.

The object of art is not to make salable pictures. It is to save yourself.

Sherwood Anderson
Art, Art Is, Save Yourself
Sherwood Anderson (1953). “Letters: selected and edited with an introd. and notes by Howard Mumford Jones, in association with Walter B. Rideout”

The life of reality is confused, disorderly, almost always without apparent purpose, whereas in the artist's imaginative life there is purpose. There is determination to give the tale, the song, the painting, form -- to make it true and real to the theme, not to life.

Sherwood Anderson
Song, Art, Determination
Sherwood Anderson (1947). “The Sherwood Anderson reader”

Those who are to follow the arts should have a training in what is called poverty. Given a comfortable middle-class start in life, the artist is almost sure to end up by becoming a bellyacher, constantly complaining because the public does not rush forward at once to proclaim him.

Sherwood Anderson
Art, Should Have, Class
Sherwood Anderson (1924). “A Story Teller's Story: The Tale of an American Writer's Journey Through His Own Imaginative World and Through the World of Facts, with Many of His Experiences and Impressions Among Other Writers--told in Many Notes--in Four Books--and an Epilogue”, p.5, University of Michigan Press

Realism, in so far as the word means reality to life, is always bad art.

Sherwood Anderson
Art, Mean, Reality
"The Portable Sherwood Anderson".

Everyone knows of the talking artists. Throughout all of the known history of the world they have gathered in rooms and talked. They talk of art and are passionately,almost feverishly, in earnest about it. They think it matters much more than it does.

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Art, Thinking, Talking
Sherwood Anderson (2015). “Winesburg, Ohio”, p.135, Sheba Blake Publishing

I think that those of us who are what are called intellectuals make a terrible mistake in overvaluing the yen we have for the arts, books, etc. There is a sweet, fine quality in life that has nothing to do with this, and more and more I find myself valuing myself with those people.

Sherwood Anderson
Sweet, Art, Mistake
Sherwood Anderson (1953). “Letters: selected and edited with an introd. and notes by Howard Mumford Jones, in association with Walter B. Rideout”

Would it not be better to have it understood that realism, in so far as the word means reality to life, is always bad art -- although it may possibly be very good journalism?

Sherwood Anderson
Art, Mean, Reality
Sherwood Anderson (1947). “The Sherwood Anderson reader”

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