George Saunders Quotes About Art

• Now I began to understand art as a kind of black box the reader enters. He enters in one state of mind and exits in another. The writer gets no points just because what's inside the box bears some linear resemblance to "real life" -- he can put whatever he wants in there. What's important is that something undeniable and nontrivial happens to the reader between entry and exit.

  George Saunders

  Art, Real, Black

  George Saunders (2012). “The Brain-Dead Megaphone”, p.78, A&C Black

• For me, the game would be to assume a very intelligent reader who can extrapolate a lot from a little. And that's become my definition of art; to get that pitch just right, where I can put a hint on page three, and the reader's ears go up a bit, as opposed to dropping it all on the first page.

  George Saunders

  Art, Intelligent, Games

• In art, and maybe just in general, the idea is to be able to be really comfortable with contradictory ideas. In other words, wisdom might be, seem to be, two contradictory ideas both expressed at their highest level and just let to sit in the same cage sort of, vibrating. So, I think as a writer, I'm really never sure of what I really believe.

  George Saunders

  Arte, Creer, Pensar

  "Nonsense: The Power of Not Knowing". Book by Jamie Holmes, 2015.

• Even when the faith goes away, there's that space where you crave something bigger than yourself. For me, that's kind of where art came in, after that.

  George Saunders

  Art, Space, Kind

  Entrevista con George Saunders, www.interviewmagazine.com. 27 de marzo de 2016.

• A menudo me pregunto si hay ciertas áreas de la vida real que están acordonadas, con un cartel que dice: "Arte, no entres aquí". Pero ésa es quizá una pregunta más profunda.

  George Saunders

  Art, Real, Wonder

  "Susan Sarandon". Interview with George Saunders, www.interviewmagazine.com. March 27, 2016.

• The bottom line for me is that life is short and art is long.

  George Saunders

  Arte, La Vida Es Corta, Larga

  "George Saunders on Trump, Mystery, and Why He Rejects Social Media". Interview with Catherine Woodiwiss, sojo.net. August 30, 2016.

• I think people have come to expect that in artistic representation; that every work of art should be a work of extravagant hope.

  George Saunders

  Arte, Pensamiento, Gente

  Fuente: www.interviewmagazine.com

• El arte no es una fruslería superflua, sino el medio de que dispone una nación para considerarse a sí misma con inteligencia. Inutilizar o estigmatizar las artes es condenar a la nación a una vida de incuria, torpeza, literalidad y el peor tipo de materialismo.

  George Saunders

  Arte, Medio, Amable

  Fuente: www.macleans.ca

• So, good news/bad news: good news that I'm progressing; bad news that life is short and art is long.

  George Saunders

  Arte, La Vida Es Corta, Larga

  Interview with Andy Ward, www.slate.com. January 7, 2013.

• A work of art is something produced by a person, but is not that person — it is of her, but is not her. It’s a reach, really — the artist is trying to inhabit, temporarily, a more compact, distilled, efficient, wittier, more true-seeing, precise version of herself — one that she can’t replicate in so-called ‘real’ life, no matter how hard she tries. That’s why she writes: to try and briefly be more than she truly is.

  George Saunders

  Arte, Real, Escritura

• I'm not sure I would call it agony but there is a kind of cyclic frustration. You get one story right and then here comes another one. When does that end? What I'm trying to do is get it to end right now, by recognizing that that cycle is writing. That is: trying to understand the frustrations and setbacks (and agony) as part of a bigger chess game you are playing with art itself.

  George Saunders

  Art, Writing, Frustration

  Interview with Andy Ward, www.slate.com. January 7, 2013.

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