Salman Rushdie Quotes About Art

• La religión, una forma medieval de sinrazón, cuando se combina con el armamento moderno se convierte en una amenaza real para nuestras libertades. Este totalitarismo religioso ha provocado una mutación mortal en el corazón del Islam y hoy vemos las trágicas consecuencias en París. Estoy con Charlie Hebdo, como debemos estarlo todos, para defender el arte de la sátira, que siempre ha sido una fuerza a favor de la libertad y en contra de la tiranía, la deshonestidad y la estupidez. El "respeto a la religión" se ha convertido en una frase clave que significa "miedo a la religión". Las religiones, como todas las demás ideas, merecen la crítica, la sátira y, sí, nuestra intrépida falta de respeto.

  Salman Rushdie

  Religioso, Arte, Real

  "Salman Rushdie: 'I Stand With Charlie Hebdo, as We All Must'". blogs.wsj.com. 07 de enero de 2015.

• I stand with Charlie Hebdo, as we all must, to defend the art of satire.

  Salman Rushdie

  Art, Charlie Hebdo, Satire

  "Charlie Hebdo magazine attack: vigils held as French hunt suspects – as it happened". Statement, www.theguardian.com. January 7, 2015.

• I stand with Charlie Hebdo, as we all must, to defend the art of satire, which has always been a force for liberty and against tyranny, dishonesty and stupidity.

  Salman Rushdie

  Art, Charlie Hebdo, Stupidity

  "Charlie Hebdo magazine attack: vigils held as French hunt suspects – as it happened". www.theguardian.com. January 7, 2015.

• What distinguishes a great artist from a weak one is first their sensibility and tenderness; second, their imagination, and third, their industry.

  Salman Rushdie

  Art, Imagination, Firsts

• La autocensura es una mentira a uno mismo; si vas a intentar crear arte en serio, crear arte literario, y decides contenerte, autocensurarte, entonces eres un tonto para ti mismo y sería mejor que mantuvieras la boca cerrada y no hablaras.

  Salman Rushdie

  Art, Lying, Self

  "I'm returning to India, deal with it - Salman Rushdie to NDTV". Interview with Barkha Dutt, www.ndtv.com. January 25, 2012.

• Not even the visionary or mystical experience ever lasts very long. It is for art to capture that experience, to offer it to, in the case of literature, its readers; to be, for a secular, materialist culture, some sort of replacement for what the love of god offers in the world of faith.

  Salman Rushdie

  Love, Art, Mystical Experiences

  Salman Rushdie (1990). “Is nothing sacred?”, Penguin (Non-Classics)

• Five mysteries hold the keys to the unseen: the act of love, and the birth of a baby, and the contemplation of great art, and being in the presence of death or disaster, and hearing the human voice lifted in song.

  Salman Rushdie

  Song, Baby, Art

  Salman Rushdie (2000). “The Ground Beneath Her Feet: A Novel”, p.20, Macmillan

• I had become a kind of information magpie, gathering to myself all manner of shiny scraps of fact and hokum and books and art-history and politics and music and film, and developing, too, a certain skill in manipulating and arranging these pitiful shards so that they glittered and caught the light. Fool's gold, or priceless nuggets mined from my singular childhood's rich bohemian seam? I leave it to others to decide.

  Salman Rushdie

  Art, Book, Light

  Salman Rushdie (2011). “The Moor's Last Sigh”, p.240, Random House

• In the experience of art, time seems not to exist. When I'm writing and think, "I've been working for two hours," I've actually been working for seven.

  Salman Rushdie

  Arte, Escritura, Pensamiento

• What is freedom of expression? Without the freedom to offend, it ceases to exist. Without the freedom to challenge, even to satirize all orthodoxies, it ceases to exist. Language and the imagination cannot be imprisoned, or art will die, and with it, a little of what makes us human.

  Salman Rushdie

  Art, Expression, Imagination

  Salman Rushdie (1990). "De buena fe", Penguin (No clásicos)

• In the waking dreams our societies permit, in our myths, our arts, our songs, we celebrate the nonbelongers, the different ones, the outlaws, the freaks.

  Salman Rushdie

  Dream, Song, Art

  Salman Rushdie (2000). “The Ground Beneath Her Feet: A Novel”, p.73, Macmillan

• I believe in the art of literature, I believe in freedom of the imagination, I believe in the kind of liberties that we enjoy in these lucky countries of the world.

  Salman Rushdie

  Country, Art, Believe

  Fuente: www.teachingbooks.net

• For me, what I've always seen in writers and artists is the courage it takes to make an original work of art. I think the real risks in literature are linguistic and intellectual, and I hope we can highlight those, as well as political courage.

  Salman Rushdie

  Arte, Real, Pensamiento

  Fuente: pen.org

• All art began as sacred art, you know? I mean, all painting began as religious painting. All writing began as religious writing.

  Salman Rushdie

  Religious, Art, Writing

• In our time, we have become too interested in the artist and his or her character and experience as a way of understanding art. In my view, you should be able to read a book or see a film without knowing a single thing about conditions or circumstances or character of the artist, and experience the work to the full without such information. Sometimes I feel - speaking for myself - that people know much too much about me, and I wish people knew less and could just read these books and respond to them purely as words on a page.

  Salman Rushdie

  Arte, Libro, Personaje

  Fuente: pen.org

• If the culture shifts, if people think differently about women, the art will shift, too. You can't ask art to make social change. It's not what it's for.

  Salman Rushdie

  Arte, Pensamiento, Gente

  "Salman Rushdie, Deepa Mehta: Movies Not to Blame for Real-World Violence (Q&A)". "Hollywood Reporter" Interview, www.hollywoodreporter.com. January 30, 2013.

• What I've always seen in writers and artists is the courage it takes to make an original work of art. I think the real risks in literature are linguistic and intellectual, and I hope we can highlight those, as well as political courage.

  Salman Rushdie

  Arte, Real, Pensamiento

  Source: lareviewofbooks.org

• I think it's a very important function of art to challenge accepted reality, especially when that reality is created by powerful interest groups.

  Salman Rushdie

  Art, Powerful, Reality

  Fuente: articles.chicagotribune.com

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