Paul Auster Quotes:
Ocupation: Author
Life: b. February 3, 1947
Birthday: February 3
For the first time in his life, he stopped worrying about results, and as a consequence the terms “success” and “failure” had suddenly lost their meaning for him. The true purpose of art was not to create beautiful objects, he discovered. It was a method of understanding, a way of penetrating the world and finding one’s place in it, and whatever aesthetic qualities an individual canvas might have were almost an incidental by-product of the effort to engage oneself in this struggle, to enter into the thick of things.
source: Paul Auster (2010). “Moon Palace: A Novel (Penguin Ink)”, p.131, Penguin
topic: Beautiful, Art, Struggle, Purpose Of Art, Beautiful Objects, True Purpose
