Jack Vance on Art
Browse 9 quotations attributed to Jack Vance, catalogued under art, with dates where available.
This page displays 9 quotations attributed to Jack Vance and filed under "art" in QuoteLineage. The selection is ordered by stored importance and quality scores, not citation counts. A topic label describes how an entry is catalogued; it does not establish the theme's importance in the author's work.
Attributed to Jack Vance, entry #170260: "I'm only giving orders because I'm more efficient and smarter than you are."
Attributed to Jack Vance, entry #100887: "And I understand they are, in a sense, artists? That is to say, they understand the creative process, the sublimation of fact to symbol and the use of symbol to suggest emotion?"
9 Quotes by Jack Vance on Art
"I'm only giving orders because I'm more efficient and smarter than you are."
"And I understand they are, in a sense, artists? That is to say, they understand the creative process, the sublimation of fact to symbol and the use of symbol to suggest emotion?"
"“And thereby hangs a tale,” as the monkey said while describing the cat’s rear-quarters."
"The tighter the discipline of an art form, the more subjective the criteria of taste."
"Art implies discipline; the more excellent the art, the more rigorous the discipline."
"You are a particularly clever girl: almost as clever as you are appealing to the eye."
"Of all questions, why? is the least pertinent. It begs the question; it assumes the larger part of its own response; to wit, that a sensible response exists."
"Human interactions, stimulated as they are by disequilibrium, never achieve balance. In even the most favorable transaction, one party—whether he realizes it or not—must always come out the worse."
"Nothing is more conspicuous than a farting princess."