E. B. White Quotes About Art

Quotes about: Art

• A poem compresses much in a small space and adds music, thus heightening its meaning.

  E. B. White

  Art, Space, Add

  E. B. White (2011). “In the Words of E.B. White: Quotations from America's Most Companionable of Writers”, p.156, Cornell University Press

• Thurber did not write the way a surgeon operates, he wrote the way a child skips rope, the way a mouse waltzes.

  E. B. White

  Art, Children, Writing

  1961 In the New Yorker, 11 Nov. Tribute to James Thurber.

• Of course, it may be that the arts of writing and photography are antithetical. The hope and aim of a word-handler is that he maycommunicate a thought or an impression to his reader without the reader's realizing that he has been dragged through a series of hazardous or grotesque syntactical situations. In photography the goal seems to be to prove beyond a doubt that the cameraman, in his great moment of creation, was either hanging by his heels from the rafters or was wedged under the floor with his lens in a knothole.

  E. B. White

  Photography, Art, Writing

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