Dorothy Parker Quotes About Art

• We were all imitative. We all wandered in after Miss Edna St. Vincent Millay. We were all being dashing and gallant, declaring we weren't virgins, whether we were or not.

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• Art is a form of catharsis.

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  Dorothy Parker (1944). “Dorothy Parker”

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• They say of me, and so they should, It's doubtful if I come to good. I see acquaintances and friends Accumulating dividends And making enviable names In science, art and parlor games. But I, despite expert advice, Keep doing things I think are nice, And though to good I never come Inseparable my nose and thumb.

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  Dorothy Parker (1936). “Not So Deep as a Well”, Macmillan Company of Canada

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• Travel, trouble, music, art, a kiss, a frock, a rhyme -- I never said they feed my heart, but still they pass my time.

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  Dorothy Parker (1936). “Not So Deep as a Well”, Macmillan Company of Canada

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• Writing is the art of applying the ass to the seat.

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• The only “ism” Hollywood believes in is plagiarism.

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  Dorothy Parker (2004). “Dorothy Parker in Her Own Words”, Taylor Trade Publishing

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• It was written without fear and without research.

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  Dorothy Parker, Stuart Y. Silverstein (2009). “Not Much Fun: The Lost Poems of Dorothy Parker”, p.41, Simon and Schuster

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• I was the toast of two continents: Greenland and Australia.

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  Quoted in John Keats, You Might As Well Live: The Life and Times of Dorothy Parker (1970)

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• Art is a form of catharsis emotional release, purging, cleansing, purifying.

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• There's little in taking or giving, There's little in water or wine: This living, this living, this living, Was never a project of mine. Oh, hard is the struggle, and sparse is The gain of the one at the top, For art is a form of catharsis, And love is a permanent flop, And work is the province of cattle, And rest's for a clam in a shell, So I'm thinking of throwing the battle - Would you kindly direct me to hell?

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  Dorothy Parker (1936). “Collected poems: Not so deep as a well”

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