Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
perfectionism is the enemy of art. Since art is essentially divine play, not dogged work, it often happens that as one becomes more professionally driven one also becomes less capriciously playful.
Erica Jong
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
Erica Jong
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: March 26
Author
Feminist
Novelist
Poet
Writer
New York City
New York
Erica Mann Jong
Play
Becomes
Dogged
Work
Enemy
Playful
Since
Perfectionism
Less
Professionally
Often
Essentially
Art
Driven
Happens
Perfection
Also
Divine
Capriciously
More quotes by Erica Jong
Singularity shows something wrong in the mind.
Erica Jong
I am against censorship. I prefer the chaos of uncontrollable communication of all sorts to selective banning of certain materials. I do not think human beings can be trusted to be above politics and to promote the common good. One group's common good is another group's evil.
Erica Jong
Loving someone is a loss of freedom - but one doesn't think of it as loss because one gains so much else.
Erica Jong
The Lives of Great Men are more oft' at variance with their profess'd Phillosophies than consistent with 'em.
Erica Jong
I think feminism means what it has always meant - women want to use all their gifts, all their talents and be judged impartially for them. I don't think feminism has ever meant anything else.
Erica Jong
tis true that tho' People can transcend their Characters in Times of Tranquillity, they can ne'er do so in Times of Tumult.
Erica Jong
It's only when you're forbidden to talk about the future that you suddenly realize how much the future normally occupies the present.
Erica Jong
Faith is the Knowledge of the Heart, Logick the Knowledge of the Mind.
Erica Jong
You're not too fat you're just in the wrong country.
Erica Jong
Mediocre prose might be read as an escape, might be spoken on television by actors, or mouthed in movies. But mediocre poetry did not exist at all. If poetry wasn't good, it wasn't poetry. It was that simple.
Erica Jong
I think men have always been afraid of women's sexuality, and the restrictions they put on women testify to that.
Erica Jong
Isn't that the problem? That women have been swindled for centuries into substituting adornment for love, fashion (as it were) for passion?
Erica Jong
I see that the greatest thing about getting older is how your judgment changes and how you come to understand the cycles of life. And you keep having these amazing flashes of understanding.
Erica Jong
Women tend to be preservers of the social structure, of marriage. They don't want to upset their husbands or their significant others. They don't want to hurt people.
Erica Jong
Jealousy is all the fun you think they had.
Erica Jong
The most important thing for a writer is to be locked in a study.
Erica Jong
I don't necessarily read everything. I read what I need to read to inspire the book I'm trying to finish.
Erica Jong
In a bad marriage, friends are the invisible glue. If we have enough friends, we may go on for years, intending to leave, talking about leaving -instead of actually getting up and leaving.
Erica Jong
Because I loved myself, I was loved.
Erica Jong
Always do the things you fear the most. Courage is an acquired taste, like caviar.
Erica Jong