Wilson Harris: Quotes about art

Wilson Harris was Guyanese writer. Explore interesting quotes on art.

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““Quantum” brings a hand in fiction that challenges all conventional fixtures of control within the psyche of art.”

Interview with Wilson Harris (2003)

“I am not suggesting that racial admixture is a solution to the world’s grave problems. I am suggesting, however, that a freedom of diverse parts in Nature to blend into variant universals should be open in fiction and art.”

Interview with Wilson Harris (2003)

“There is no economic solution to the ills of the world until the arts of originality […] open the partialities and biases of tradition in ways that address the very core of our pre-possessions.”

The Unfinished Genesis of the Imagination (1999)

“It is not only the gulf between religions and cultures that plaques us today. There is the widening gulf between the rich and the poor, the world of plenty and the world of famine. We may think we can make a good patch work or mechanical arrangement to ameliorate such a division. But this I feel is an illusion. There is no economic solution to the ills of the world until the arts of originality - arts that are driven by mysterious strangeness - open the partialities and bias of tradition in ways that address the very core of our pre-possessions.”

pg. 251.
The Unfinished Genesis of the Imagination (1999)

“The arts have to be pursued irrespective of what people think.”

Interview with Wilson Harris (2010) on being Knighted at Queen Elizabeth II Birthday Honours