Elizabeth Bowen Quotes About Art

Quotes about: Art

• Illusions are art, for the feeling person, and it is by art that we live, if we do.

  Elizabeth Bowen

  Art, Feelings, Literature

  Elizabeth Bowen (1938). “The death of the heart”, Viking Pr

• Art is one thing that can go on mattering once it has stopped hurting.

  Elizabeth Bowen

  Art, Hurt, Memorable

  Heat of the Day (1949) ch. 16

• I am dead against art's being self-expression. I see an inherent failure in any story which fails to detach itself from the author-detach itself in the sense that a well-blown soap-bubble detaches itself from the bowl of the blower's pipe and spherically takes off into the air as a new, whole, pure, iridescent world. Whereas the ill-blown bubble, as children know, timidly adheres to the bowl's lip, then either bursts or sinks flatly back again.

  Elizabeth Bowen

  Art, Children, Air

• Art, at any rate in a novel, must be indissolubly linked with craft.

  Elizabeth Bowen

  Art, Crafts, Novel

• Art is for [the Irish] inseparable from artifice: of that, the theatre is the home. Possibly, it was England made me a novelist.

  Elizabeth Bowen

  Art, Home, Theatre

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