5 Tom Robbins Quotes on Art

Tom Robbins quotes on art

80. In the haunted house of life, art is the only stair that doesn't creak.

82. ...she recreated the mountains not as she had originally seen them but as she eventually chose to perceive them, not only a capacity to observe the world but a capacity to alter his or her observation of it---which, in the end, is the capacity to alter the world, itself. Those people who recognise that imagination is reality's master, we call 'sages,' and those who act upon it, we call 'artists.'

94. In this room, the salamander was squashed between the pages of the rhyming dictionary, thereby changing poetry forever. Here, Salome walked around with a big red fish held high up over her head. Old Father spanked her with a ballet slipper, sending her to bed without milk or honey. Dance was changed in this room, too.

115. 'I'm looking for the novelists whose writing is an extension of their intellect rather than an extension of their neurosis.'

116. 'Nobody can say the word 'naked' as nakedly as Cohen.'