Lawrence Durrell Quotes About Art

Quotes about: Art

• For us artists there waits the joyous compromise through art with all that wounded or defeated us in daily life; in this way, not to evade destiny, as the ordinary people try to do, but to fulfil it in its true potential - the imagination.

  Lawrence Durrell

  Art, Destiny, People

  Lawrence Durrell (2012). “The Alexandria Quartet: Justine, Balthazar, Mountolive, Clea”, p.14, Faber & Faber

• Art—the meaning of the pattern of our common actions in reality. The cloth-of-gold that hides behind the sackcloth of reality, forced out by the pain of human memory.

  Lawrence Durrell

  Art, Pain, Memories

• Art like life is an open secret.

  Lawrence Durrell

  Art, Secret, Life Is

  Lawrence Durrell (2012). “The Alexandria Quartet: Justine, Balthazar, Mountolive, Clea”, p.361, Faber & Faber

• Religion is simply art bastardized out of all recognition.

  Lawrence Durrell

  Art, Recognition

  Lawrence Durrell (2012). “The Alexandria Quartet: Justine, Balthazar, Mountolive, Clea”, p.696, Faber & Faber

• The heaviest impact of the work of art is in the guts. Art does not reason. It manhandles you and changes you.

  Lawrence Durrell

  Art, Impact, Doe

  Lawrence Durrell (1952). “Key to modern poetry”

• The effective in art is what rapes the emotions of your audience without nourishing its values.

  Lawrence Durrell

  Art, Emotion, Audience

  Lawrence Durrell (2012). “The Alexandria Quartet: Justine, Balthazar, Mountolive, Clea”, p.265, Faber & Faber

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