Quotes by Rushdie, Salman

The idea of the sacred is quite simply one of the most conservative no >>

Our lives teach us who we are. >>

Whores and writers, Mahound. We are the people you can't forgive. >>

Quotations about Arts and Artists

There is only one art, whose sole criterion is the power, the authenti >>

Art never improves, but the material of art is never quite the same. >>

The moment you cheat for the sake of beauty, you know you're an artist >>

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.

Rushdie, Salman