Lawrence Durrell Art Quotations

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.

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

Art like life is an open secret.

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.

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