Lawrence George Durrellwas an expatriate British novelist, poet, dramatist, and travel writer... (wikipedia)
The cocktail party - as the name itself indicates - was originally invented by dogs. They are simply bottom-sniffings raised to the rank of formal ceremonies.
Life, the raw material, is only lived in potentia until the artist deploys it in his work.
The heaviest impact of the work of art is in the guts. Art does not reason. It manhandles you and changes you...
Does not everything depend on our interpretation of the silence around us?
Music is only love looking for words.
We are all hunting for rational reasons for believing in the absurd.
It's unthinkable not to love -you'd have a severe nervous breakdown. Or you'd have to be Philip Larkin.
The sense of truth no matter how subjective is necessary for the experience of beauty.