Author: Gunter Grass

Quotes

No idea stays pure. Even the flowering of art isn't pure. And the sun has spots.

No idea stays pure. Even the flowering of art isn't pure. And the sun has spots.

- Gunter Grass

Art is accusation, expression, passion. Art is a fight to the finish between black charcoal and white paper.

Art is accusation, expression, passion. Art is a fight to the finish between black charcoal and white paper.

- Gunter Grass

We already have the statistics for the future: the growth percentages of pollution, overpopulation, desertification. The future is already in place.

We already have the statistics for the future: the growth percentages of pollution, overpopulation, desertification. The future is already in place.

- Gunter Grass

Our minds aren't bound by a chronological corset. When thinking and dreaming, past, present and future are mixed up. That's also possible for a writer.

Our minds aren't bound by a chronological corset. When thinking and dreaming, past, present and future are mixed up. That's also possible for a writer.

- Gunter Grass

I'm always astonished by a forest. It makes me realise that the fantasy of nature is much larger than my own fantasy. I still have things to learn.

I'm always astonished by a forest. It makes me realise that the fantasy of nature is much larger than my own fantasy. I still have things to learn.

- Gunter Grass

Art is uncompromising and life is full of compromises.

Art is uncompromising and life is full of compromises.

- Gunter Grass

How do we prevent Iran developing an atomic bomb, when, on the American side, dropping atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki is not recognised as a war crime?

How do we prevent Iran developing an atomic bomb, when, on the American side, dropping atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki is not recognised as a war crime?

- Gunter Grass

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