Robertson Davies Quotes About Art

Quotes about: Art

• It is those pent-up, craving children who make all the wars and all the horrors and all the art and all the beauty and discovery in life, because they are trying to achieve what lay beyond their grasp before they were five years old.

  Robertson Davies

  Art, Children, War

  Robertson Davies (1992). “The Cornish Trilogy”, Penguin Group USA

• Art is wine and experience is the brandy we distill from it.

  Robertson Davies

  Art, Wine, Alcohol

• The drama may be called that part of theatrical art which lends itself most readily to intellectual discussion: what is left is theater.

  Robertson Davies

  Art, Drama, Intellectual

  Robertson Davies (1961). “The Personal Art: Reading to Good Purpose”, London : Secker & Warburg

• The clerisy are those who seek, and find, delight and enlargement of life in books. The clerisy are those for whom reading is a personal art.

  Robertson Davies

  Art, Book, Reading

• Literary critics, however, frequently suffer from a curious belief that every author longs to extend the boundaries of literary art, wants to explore new dimensions of the human spirit, and if he doesn't, he should be ashamed of himself.

  Robertson Davies

  Art, Suffering, Want

  "Somerset Maugham". 1982.

• The division between art and deviousness and crime is sometimes as thin as a cigarette paper.

  Robertson Davies

  Art, Division, Paper

• Imagination is a good horse to carry you over the ground - not a flying carpet to set you free from probability.

  Robertson Davies

  Art, Horse, Imagination

• All art is holy. Not that it is all long-faced and miserable; it can be wild and wooly. But if it transforms you, it is art. And it is holy.

  Robertson Davies

  Art, Long, Religion

• Art is always at peril in universities, where there are so many people, young and old, who love art less than argument, and dote upon a text that provides the nutritious pemmican on which scholars love to chew.

  Robertson Davies

  Art, People, Argument

  Robertson Davies (1996). “The Cunning Man”, Penguin Group USA

• The truth is that art does not teach; it makes you feel, and any teaching that may arise from the feeling is an extra, and must not be stressed too much. In the modern world, and in Canada as much as anywhere, we are obsessed with the notion that to think is the highest achievement of mankind, but we neglect the fact that thought untouched by feeling is thin, delusive, treacherous stuff.

  Robertson Davies

  Art, Teaching, Thinking

  Robertson Davies (1993). “Fortune, My Foe and Eros at Breakfast”, p.8, Dundurn

• The art of the quoter is to know when to stop.

  Robertson Davies

  Art, Knows

  Robertson Davies (1992). “The Cornish Trilogy”, Penguin Group USA

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