Ralph Ellison Quotes on Art
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Eclecticism is the word. Like a jazz musician who creates his own style out of the styles around him, I play by ear.
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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.
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The understanding of art depends finally upon one's willingness to extend one's humanity and one's knowledge of human life.