Rebecca West Quotes About Art

Quotes about: Art

• Any authentic work of art must start an argument between the artist and his audience.

  Rebecca West

  Art, Women, Criticism

  Rebecca West (1957). “The Court and the Castle: Some Treatments of a Recurrent Theme /$Rebecca West”

• Art is not a luxury, but a necessity.

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  Art, Luxury, Art Is

  Rebecca West (2010). “The Strange Necessity: Essays and Reviews”, p.110, Open Road Media

• art is at least in part a way of collecting information about the universe.

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  Art, Information, Way

  Rebecca West (2010). “The Strange Necessity: Essays and Reviews”, p.52, Open Road Media

• works of art feel towards human beings exactly as we do towards ghosts. The transparency of spectres, the diffuseness in space which lets them drift through doors and walls, and their smell of death, disgust us not more than we disgust works of art by our meaninglessness, our diffuseness in time which lets us drift through three score years and ten without a quarter as much significance as a picture establishes instantaneously.

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  Art, Wall, Doors

• Bad art is maintained by the neurotic, who is deadly afraid of authentic art because it inspires him to go on living, and he is terrified of life.

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  Art, Inspire, Goes On

  Rebecca West (2010). “The Strange Necessity: Essays and Reviews”, p.113, Open Road Media

• There is a point, and it is reached more easily than is supposed, where interference with freedom of the arts and literature becomes an attack on the life of society.

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  Art, Society, Literature

  Bernard Causton, G. Gordon Young, Rebecca West (1930). “Keeping it dark: or, The censor's handbook”

• I cannot see that art is anything less than a way of making joys perpetual.

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  Art, Joy, Scrapbooking

  Rebecca West (2010). “The Strange Necessity: Essays and Reviews”, p.120, Open Road Media

• Art and propaganda have this much connection, that if a propaganda makes art impossible, it is clearly damned.

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  Art, Connections, Impossible

  Rebecca West (2011). “The Young Rebecca: Writings of Rebecca West 1911-17”, p.17, Open Road Media

• the law, like art, is always vainly racing to catch up with experience.

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  Art, Law, Racing

  Rebecca West (2011). “The Meaning of Treason”, p.93, Open Road Media

• The delight we find in art amounts to recognition of a saving grace, to an acknowledgment that the problem of life has a solution implicit in its own nature, though not yet formulated by the intellect.

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  Art, Grace, Delight

  Rebecca West (1957). “The Court and the Castle: Some Treatments of a Recurrent Theme /$Rebecca West”

• every human activity, whether it be love, philosophy, art, or revolution, is carried on with a special intensity in Paris.

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  Art, Philosophy, Paris

  Rebecca West (2010). “The Birds Fall Down”, p.81, Open Road Media

• What is art? It is not decoration. It is the re-living of experience.

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  Art, Decoration

  Rebecca West (2007). “Black Lamb and Grey Falcon”, p.1127, Penguin

• A copy of the universe is not what is required of art; one of the damned things is ample.

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  Funny, Art, Humor

• Art is not a plaything, but a necessity, and its essence, form, is not a decorative adjustment, but a cup into which life can be poured and lifted to the lips and be tasted.

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  Art, Essence, Cups

  Rebecca West (2010). “Black Lamb and Grey Falcon: A Journey Through Yugoslavia”, p.36, Open Road Media

• There is no logical reason why the camel of great art should pass through the needle of mob intelligence.

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  Art, Camels, Reason Why

  Rebecca West (1928). “The strange necessity: essays by Rebecca West”

• whatever a work of art may be, the artist certainly cannot dare to be simple. He must have a nature as complicated and as violent, as totally unsuggestive of the word innocence, as a modern war.

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  Art, War, Simple

  Rebecca West (1928). “The strange necessity: essays by Rebecca West”

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