Cyril Connolly Quotes About Art
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The reward of art is not fame or success but intoxication.
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The artist is a member of the leisured classes who cannot pay for his leisure.
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He [George Orwell] would not blow his nose without moralising on conditions in the handkerchief industry.
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The artist one day falls through a hole in the brambles, and from that moment he is following the dark rapids of an underground river which may sometimes flow so near to the surface that the laughing picnic parties are heard above.
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Imagination is nostalgia for the past, the absent it is the liquid solution in which art develops the snapshot of reality.
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There is no more sombre enemy of good art than the pram in the hall.
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Literature is the art of writing something that will be read twice; journalism what will be grasped at once.
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The true work of art is the one which the seventh wave of genius throws up the beach where the undertow of time cannot drag it back.
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