John Dos Passos Quotes About Art

• Every generation rewrites the past. In easy times history is more or less of an ornamental art, but in times of danger we are driven to the written record by a pressing need to find answers to the riddles of today.... In times of change and danger when there is a quicksand of fear under men's reasoning, a sense of continuity with generations gone before can stretch like a lifeline across the scary present and get us past that idiot delusion of the exceptional Now that blocks good thinking.

  John Dos Passos

  Art, Block, Past

  John Dos Passos (1964). “Occasions and protests”

• Las mujeres empeñan sus joyas y las pólizas de seguro de sus maridos para adquirir un tono desacostumbrado en el pelo o en el crêpe de chine. ¿Por qué, entonces, cuando alguien hace algo novedoso en el arte es siempre recibido por el mismo aullido de dolor y sorpresa? Uno se ve inducido a sospechar que el interés que la gente muestra por estos productos de los que tanto se habla, la pintura, la música y la escritura, no puede ser muy profundo ni muy genuino cuando se estremecen ante un impacto inesperado.

  John Dos Passos

  Art, Pain, Husband

• In a moment when criticism shows a singular dearth of direction every man has to be a law unto himself in matters of theatre, writing, and painting. While the American Mercury and the new Ford continue to spread a thin varnish of Ritz over the whole United States there is a certain virtue in being unfashionable.

  John Dos Passos

  Arte, Escritura, Hombres

  John Dos Passos (1988). “John Dos Passos: the major nonfictional prose”

• Talk is a pure art. Its only limits are the patience of listeners who, when they get tired, can always pay for their coffee or change it with a friendly waiter and walk out.

  John Dos Passos

  Art, Coffee, Tired

• Experiments in the visual arts (the invention of new ways of seeing things), are made because, due to the way the apparatus that makes up the mind is made, old processes and patterns have continually to be broken up in order to make it possible to perceive the new aspects and arrangements of evolving consciousness. The great enemy of intelligence is complacency.

  John Dos Passos

  Art, Order, Broken

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