Kurt Vonnegut Gems
From his newest book, A Man Without a Country:
"The arts are not a way to make a living. They are a very human way of making life more bearable. Practicing an art, no matter how well or badly, is a way to make your soul grow, for heaven's sake. Sing in the shower. Dance to the radio. Tell stories. Write a poem to a friend, even a lousy poem. Do it as well as you possibly can. You will get an enormous reward. You will have created something."
And these quotes from Saul Steinberg, whom Vonnegut calls the "wisest person I ever met in my entire life" --
"There are two sorts of artists, one not being in the least superior to the other. But one responds to the history or his or her art so far, and the other responds to life itself...what you respond to in any work of art is the artist's struggle against his or her limitations."
