Hiding Man Quotes

“[W]hat an artist does is fail,” he writes. “The actualization fails to meet, equal, the intuition . . . there is no such thing as a ‘successful artist.”
― Tracy Daugherty, Hiding Man: A Biography of Donald Barthelme

“Art is not difficult because it wishes to be difficult,” he said, “but because it wishes to be art.”
― Tracy Daugherty, Hiding Man: A Biography of Donald Barthelme

“I loved idiot paintings, tops of doors, decors, saltimbanques, canvases, signboards, popular engravings, obsolete literature, church Latin, badly-spelled pornographic works, novels by our grandmothers, fairy tales, little children’s books, old operas, folk refrains, popular rhythms. —Rimbaud, “A Season in Hell”
― Tracy Daugherty, Hiding Man: A Biography of Donald Barthelme