Reads tagged with “interviews”
Ursula K. Le Guin on Art, Storytelling, and the Power of Language to Transform and Redeem
“One of the functions of art is to give people the words to know their own experience… Storytelling is a tool for knowing who we are and what we want.”
The Doom and Glory of Knowing Who You Are: James Baldwin on the Empathic Rewards of Reading and What It Means to Be an Artist
“An artist is a sort of emotional or spiritual historian. His role is to make you realize the doom and glory of knowing who you are and what you are.”
Elizabeth Alexander on How Great Artists Orient Themselves to Light of the World
“Art that speaks to any of us always comes from a very particular place, and then we find ourselves in it in some kind of way.”
Patti Smith on Listening to the Creative Impulse and the Crucial Difference Between Writing Poetry and Songwriting
“In times of strife, we have our imagination, we have our creative impulse, which are things that are more important than material things. They are the things that we should magnify.”
There Is a Crack in Everything, That’s How the Light Gets In: Leonard Cohen on Democracy and Its Redemptions
A generous reminder that we must aim for “a revelation in the heart rather than a confrontation or a call-to-arms or a defense.”
Albert Camus on the Three Antidotes to the Absurdity of Life
“In a world whose absurdity appears to be so impenetrable, we simply must reach a greater degree of understanding among men, a greater sincerity.”
Go the Way Your Blood Beats: James Baldwin on Love, the Trap of Labels, and His Liberating Advice on Coming Out
“Loving anybody and being loved by anybody is a tremendous danger, a tremendous responsibility.”
Oliver Sacks on Evolving Our Notions of Normalcy to Include the Differently Abled
“If a tenth or a quarter of the population have some condition, it has to be accepted as a legitimate form of life.”
Leonard Cohen on Moonlight, the Mystique of Creativity, His Influences, and Why He Loves It When People Cover His Songs
“It’s also very difficult to untangle influences because you represent the sum of everything you’ve seen or heard or experienced.”
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