Famous quotes containing the words work and/or published:
“Human life itself may be almost pure chaos, but the work of the artistthe only thing hes good foris to take these handfuls of confusion and disparate things, things that seem to be irreconcilable, and put them together in a frame to give them some kind of shape and meaning. Even if its only his view of a meaning. Thats what hes forto give his view of life.”
—Katherine Anne Porter (18901980)
“To me a book is a message from the gods to mankind; or, if not, should never be published at all.... A message from the gods should be delivered at once. It is damnably blasphemous to talk about the autumn season and so on. How dare the author or publisher demand a price for doing his duty, the highest and most honourable to which a man can be called?”
—Aleister Crowley (18751947)