3 Ralph Ellison Quotes on Art

Ralph Ellison quotes on art

8. Eclecticism is the word. Like a jazz musician who creates his own style out of the styles around him, I play by ear.

16. The blues is an art of ambiguity, an assertion of the irrepressibly human over all circumstances, whether created by others or by one's own human failing.

18. The understanding of art depends finally upon one's willingness to extend one's humanity and one's knowledge of human life.