James Thurber Quotes About Art

Quotes about: Art

• Unless artists can remember what it was to be a little boy, they are only half complete as artist and as man.

  James Thurber

  Art, Boys, Men

  Quoted in Helen Thurber and Edward Weeks (eds) Selected Letters of James Thurber (1981).

• He knows all about art, but he doesn't know what he likes.

  James Thurber

  Art, Likes, Favourite

  Cartoon caption, New Yorker, 4 Nov. 1939 See Gelett Burgess 6

• The whole of Paris is a vast university of Art, Literature and Music... it is worth anyone's while to dally here for years. Paris is a seminar, a post-graduate course in everything.

  James Thurber

  Art, Years, Paris

  James Thurber, Harrison Kinney, Rosemary A. Thurber (2002). “The Thurber letters: the wit, wisdom, and surprising life of James Thurber”, Simon and Schuster

• Art – the one achievement of man which has made the long trip up from all fours seem well advised

  James Thurber

  Art, Men, Long

  1939 In Forum and Century magazine, Jun.

• Most of the faint intimations of immortality of which we are occasionally aware would seem to arise out of Art or the materials of Art.

  James Thurber

  Art, Immortality, Arise

  James Thurber (1996). “Writings and Drawings”, Library of America

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