“I feel like a sailor, or better, like an explorer of the immense universe of art. The artist is a discoverer in search of the keys that open the door to emotions and feelings . Art is the place where rationality, fantasy, truth and fiction mix up in a detonating mixture.” FeelsArtFeelingsArtistUniverseEmotionFictionFantasyDoorsKeysArt IsImmenseRationalityMixturesSailorExplorers Author:Augusto De Luca
“There's always someone kicking guns. We wanted ["Badlands"] to be a world without guns and bullets, where martial arts was the form of fighting and defense and attack. Martial arts is king in this world. That was the first thing. We didn't want it to be a period piece either. We felt those are overdone and stuffy. That was what lead us to explore that area of science fiction and future, a world we can create and control.” WorldWantFirstsArtWantedFormFightingFeltFictionPiecesThis WorldKingsPeriodsArt IsGunAreasScience FictionDefenseMartial ArtsBulletsKicking Author:Miles Millar
“What fiction and art can do, particularly narrative art, is construct consciousness - in a sense, we have to do it for the first time, every time.” FirstsArtCan DoConsciousnessFictionArt IsFirst TimeNarrativeConstructsNarrative Art Author:Aleksandar Hemon
“As you may know, my motto is: "All memory is fiction." It could just as easily be: "All fiction is memory." Unpacked, these two statements defy the ease of logic, but offer some really important truths about narrative art, at the very least, and about memory. So I would say that all art is personal.” KnowsMayArtTwoImportantMemoriesFictionOffersArt IsLogicStatementsNarrativeEaseMottoMy MottoNarrative Art Author:Kwame Dawes
“The notion that the public accepts or rejects anything in modern art is merely romantic fiction. The game is completed and the trophies distributed long before the public knows what has happened.” KnowsLongArtGamesFictionAcceptingHappenedModernArt IsNotionRejectsRomantic LoveTrophiesModern Art Book:The Painted Word Source: The Painted Word
“Art is never the voice of a country, it is an even more precious thing, the voice of the individual, doing its best to speak, not comfort of any sort, but truth. And the art that speaks it most unmistakably, most directly, most variously, most fully, is fiction.” ArtCountryIndividualSpeakVoiceFictionComfortArt IsPrecious Things Book:On Writing Source: On Writing
“Fiction is art and art is the triumph over chaos… to celebrate a world that lies spread out around us like a bewildering and stupendous dream.” WorldArtDreamLyingFictionArt IsChaosSpreadCelebrateTriumph Author:John Cheever
“Art is amoral, whether we accept this or not; it does not take sides. The finest fictions are cold at heart.” HeartDoeArtSidesFictionAcceptingColdArt IsFinest Author:John Banville
“Fiction is art and art is the triumph over chaos (no less) and we can accomplish this only by the most vigilant exercise of choice, but in a world that changes more swiftly that we can perceive there is always the danger that our powers of selection will be mistaken and that the vision we serve will come to nothing.” WorldArtChoicesFictionVisionDangerExerciseArt IsChaosAccomplishTriumphPerceiveMistakenSelectionVigilant Book:Collected Stories Source: Collected Stories