Quotes by Rich, Adrienne

The ocean, whose tides respond, like women's menses, to the pull of th >>

There is the falsely mystical view of art that assumes a kind of super >>

Only to have a grief equal to all these tears! >>

Quotations about Arts and Artists

To say that a work of art is good, but incomprehensible to the majorit >>

No man but a blockhead ever wrote, except for money. >>

Humanity is the rich effluvium, it is the waste and the manure and the >>

There is the falsely mystical view of art that assumes a kind of supernatural inspiration, a possession by universal forces unrelated to questions of power and privilege or the artist's relation to bread and blood. In this view, the channel of art can only become clogged and misdirected by the artist's concern with merely temporary and local disturbances. The song is higher than the struggle.

Rich, Adrienne