Anthony Burgess Quotes About Art
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The 21st chapter gives the novel the quality of genuine fiction, an art founded on the principle that human beings change. ----- "A Clockwork Orange Resucked" intro to first full American version 1986
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A Haydn symphony had a meaning for the social group that listened to it. A Mahler symphony had a meaning for the man who composed it. Here is the difference between the classical and romantic attitudes to art.
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The purpose of education is to fit us for life in a civilised community, and it seems to follow from the subjects we study that the two most important things in civilised life are Art and Science.
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What critics often ask for is the impossible, though this may be a salutary means of extending the borders of art.
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The trouble began with Forster. After him it was considered ungentlemanly to write more than five or six novels.
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I think art is sublimated libido. You can’t be a eunuch priest, and you can’t be a eunuch artist.
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Art is rare and sacred and hard work, and there ought to be a wall of fire around it.
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If you want to be considered a poet, you will have to show mastery of the petrarchan sonnet form or the sestina. Your musical efforts must begin with well-formed fugues. There is no substitute for craft... Art begins with craft, and there is no art until craft has been mastered.
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All art preserves mysteries which aesthetic philosophers tackle in vain.
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Every grain of experience is food for the greedy growing soul of the artist.
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Well, well, well, well. If it isn't fat, stinking billygoat Billy-Boy in poison. How art thou, thou globby bottle of cheap, stinking chip-oil? Come and get one in the yarbles, if you have any yarbles, you eunuch jelly thou.
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This is great art, we've been told this by the great pundits of our age. And in consequence why should we bother to learn? There's nothing more delightful than to be told, 'You don't have to learn, my boy. There's nothing in it. Modern art? There's nothing in it.
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