Tom Robbins - Best Quotes

In Seattle I soon found that my radical ideas and aesthetic explorations – ideas and explorations that in Richmond Virginia might have gotten me stoned to death with hush puppies – were not only accepted but occasionally applauded.

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To some extent Seattle remains a frontier metropolis a place where people can experiment with their lives and change and grow and make things happen.

Tom Robbins

To some extent Seattle remains a frontier metropolis a place where people can experiment with their lives and change and grow and make things happen.

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Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business.

Tom Robbins

Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business.

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My first love is art and I see a lot of things in an artistic way.

In my world history comes down to language and art. No one cares much about what battles were fought who won them and who lost them – unless there is a painting a play a song or a poem that speaks of the event.

A compromise is the art of dividing a cake in such a way that everyone believes he has the biggest piece.

Wushu is a move in Chinese a physical move. An attack. Wushu is like an art.

Science is spectral analysis. Art is light synthesis.

The idea of avant-garde art is a very suspicious thing to me the idea that poetry is new and it keeps being new the way Chevrolets every year are new.

Any work that aspires however humbly to the condition of art should carry its justification in every line.

When thou art at Rome do as they do at Rome.

Rock isn't art it's the way ordinary people talk.

Tell me thy company and I'll tell thee what thou art.

Book-jacket design may become a lost art like album-cover design without which late-20th-century iconography would have been pauperized.

Art is nature speeded up and God slowed down.

Author: Tom Robbins

Religion is not merely the opium of the masses it's the cyanide.

We waste time looking for the perfect lover instead of creating the perfect love.

If little else the brain is an educational toy.

People write memoirs because they lack the imagination to make things up.

Equality is not in regarding different things similarly equality is in regarding different things differently.

Education is for growth and fulfillment.

In Seattle I soon found that my radical ideas and aesthetic explorations – ideas and explorations that in Richmond Virginia might have gotten me stoned to death with hush puppies – were not only accepted but occasionally applauded.

To some extent Seattle remains a frontier metropolis a place where people can experiment with their lives and change and grow and make things happen.

Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business.