Quotes by Gordimer, Nadine

In a democracy -- even if it is a so-called democracy like our white-Ã >>

The gap between the committed and the indifferent is a Sahara whose fa >>

Exile as a mode of genius no longer exists; in place of Joyce we have >>

Quotations about Arts and Artists

Art is an experience, not the formulation of a problem. >>

A work of art is above all an adventure of the mind. >>

Art need no longer be an account of past sensations. It can become the >>

Art is on the side of the oppressed. Think before you shudder at the simplistic dictum and its heretical definition of the freedom of art. For if art is freedom of the spirit, how can it exist within the oppressors?

Gordimer, Nadine