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"I'm not religious, nor would I seek to be," she has said. "But I suppose it's about transcendence.
It's because I am convinced of the invisible world beyond the material that I write the way I do." In addition to her Whitbread Prize, Winterson has been the recipient of the John Llewellyn Rhys Memorial Prize, the E.M..
Unlike Harold Bloom, I really believe that human beings can be taught to love what they do not love already and that the privileged moment exists for all of us, if we let it.
Letting art is the paradox of active surrender.
I have to work for art if I want art to work on me..
What is Flaneur that the author, Jeanette Winterson, mentioned in the first paragraph.
The idea of Flaneur, the casual wanderer, observer ad reporter of street-life in the modern city.
Of course, the artists actually do produce works of art after all of his observing, walking about and taking with diverse peoples..
Modern life, so Winterson, deadens people.
In art we experience moments of awakening. “Art won't change the world, but its remedy lies in awakening us to those buried longings and desires, to live differently, to live well.” – irrespective of the media we find ourselves using..
What art does is to coax us away from the mechanical and towards the miraculous.
The so-called uselessness of art is a clue to its transforming power.
Art is not part of the machine..
Definitions of art object. a work of art of some artistic value. synonyms: objet d'art, piece. types: virtu. objet d'art collectively (especially fine antiques).
Art, says Winterson, is “the essential equipment for the task of being human.
It provides a basic kit for life.
Don't leave home without it.” Art remains the best way Winterson knows “of passing on the complexity and value of human experience, generation to generation, across time.” Art cleans the retina..
This study investigates the way in which Jeanette Winterson’s works represent the self and the nature of existence by systematically challenging the authenticity of the construct of reality itself.
Her mother constantly tells her that “the Devil” led her and her husband to “the wrong crib” when they selected Jeanette at the adoption society. Mrs. Winterson, who is obsessed with End Time and the coming of the Apocalypse, emotionally abuses Jeanette and forces Mr. Winterson to dole out physical punishments.
For when Jeanette Winterson looks at works as diverse as the Mona Lisa and Virginia Woolf's The Waves, she frees them from layers of preconception and restores their power to exalt and unnerve, shock and transform us. Novelist Jeanette Winterson was born in Manchester, England in 1959.
English writer
Jeanette Winterson is an English author.