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
Since
Perfectionism
Less
Professionally
Often
Essentially
Art
Driven
Happens
Perfection
Also
Divine
Capriciously
Play
Becomes
Dogged
Work
Enemy
Playful
More quotes by Erica Jong
If we don't risk anything, we risk even more.
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
It is for this, partly, that I write. How can I know what I think unless I see what I write.
Erica Jong
Great loves have legs and wings. They are substantial. They do not dissapate so easily... Great loves have staying power. Or so I told myself.
Erica Jong
Never joke with the press. Irony does not translate into newsprint.
Erica Jong
Plot is just a fancy way of saying 'and then.
Erica Jong
I started with poetry because it was direct, immediate, and short. It was the ecstasy of striking matches in the dark.
Erica Jong
No one ever found wisdom without also being a fool.
Erica Jong
Jealousy is all the fun you think they had.
Erica Jong
Don't ye know that ev'ry Soul on Earth feels itself to be an Orphan?
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
the body is wiser than its inhabitants. the body is the soul. the body is god’s messenger.
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
All people believe their suffering is greater than others.
Erica Jong
A book burrows into your life in a very profound way because the experience of reading is not passive.
Erica Jong
I want you. I want you. I want you. Anything to avoid saying: I love you.
Erica Jong
in freeing myself from the romantic dream of finding another man to come along and rescue me, I learned that no one can rescue me except myself.
Erica Jong
The greatest feminists have also been the greatest lovers. I'm thinking not only of Mary Wollstonecraft and her daughter Mary Shelley, but of Anais Nin, Edna St. Vincent Millay, and of course Sappho. You cannot divide creative juices from human juices. And as long as juicy women are equated with bad women, we will err on the side of being bad.
Erica Jong
If we ban whatever offends any group in our diverse society, we will soon have no art, no culture, no humor, no satire. Satire is by its nature offensive. So is much art and political discourse. The value of these expressions far outweighs their risk.
Erica Jong
Surviving means being born over and over.
Erica Jong