John Fowles Quotes About Art

Quotes about: Art

• Science disembodies; art embodies.

  John Fowles

  Art

  John Fowles (1970). “The Aristos”, Signet Book

• Thomas Beecham was a pompous little band-master who stood against everything creative in the art of his time.

  John Fowles

  Music, Art, Creative

• Edith Sitwell's interest in art was largely confined to portraits of herself.

  John Fowles

  Art, Portraits, Interest

• Art's cruel. You can get away with murder with words. But a picture is like a window straight through to your inmost heart.

  John Fowles

  Art, Murder, Window

  John Fowles (1980). “The collector”, Dell Pub Co

• Do you know that every great thing in the history of art and every beautiful thing in life is actually what you call nasty or has been caused by feelings that you would call nasty? By passion, by love, by hatred, by truth. Do you know that?

  John Fowles

  Beautiful, Art, Passion

  John Fowles (1980). “The collector”, Dell Pub Co

• Each age, each guilty age, builds high walls around its Versailles; and personally I hate those walls most when they are made by literature and art.

  John Fowles

  Art, Wall, Hate

  JOHN FOWLES (1969). “THE FRENCH LIEUTENANT'S WOMAN”

• Art is a statement of one in the face of all; not a statement by one for the use of all.

  John Fowles

  Art, Use, Faces

  John Fowles (1970). “The Aristos”, Signet Book

• The practise of an art is essential to the whole man, not because of what art is but because of what art does to the artist.

  John Fowles

  Art, Men, Essentials

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