For me taking a pragmatic decision when it comes to art is almost an oxymoron. The reason I first picked up a pen and wrote a story had nothing pragmatic in it. (Etgar Keret)

For me taking a pragmatic decision when it comes to art is almost an oxymoron. The reason I first picked up a pen and wrote a story had nothing pragmatic in it.

Etgar Keret

Related topics

almost art comes decision nothing oxymoron pen pragmatic reason story taking

Related quotes

Your own reason is the only oracle given you by heaven, and you are answerable for, not the rightness, but the uprightness of the decision. View quote
Thomas Jefferson
The evil that is in the world almost always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence if they lack understanding. View quote
Albert Camus
Nothing is more capable of troubling our reason, and consuming our health, than secret notions of jealousy in solitude. View quote
Aphra Behn
Many books require no thought from those who read them, and for a very simple reason; they made no such demand upon those who wrote them. View quote
Charles Caleb Colton
All our knowledge begins with the senses, proceeds then to the understanding, and ends with reason. There is nothing higher than reason. View quote
Immanuel Kant