Art Quotes
“It is no great art to say something briefly when, like Tacitus, one has something to say when one has nothing to say, however, and none the less writes a whole book and makes truth into a liar - that I call an achievement.”
“I can't bear art that you can walk round and admire. A book should be either a bandit or a rebel or a man in the crowd.”
-- David Herbert Lawrence
“Every man should follow the bent of his nature in art and letters, always provided that he does not offend against the rules of morality and good taste.”
-- Thomas Edward Brown
“There are neither good nor bad subjects. From the point of view of pure Art, you could almost establish it as an axiom that the subject is irrelevant, style itself being an absolute manner of seeing things.”
-- Gustave Flaubert