Art is rare and sacred and hard work, and there ought to be a wall of fire around it. — Anthony Burgess Copy Share Image
All art preserves mysteries which aesthetic philosophers tackle in vain. — Anthony Burgess Copy Share Image
Every grain of experience is food for the greedy growing soul of the artist. — Anthony Burgess Copy Share Image
I think art is sublimated libido. You can’t be a eunuch priest, and you can’t be a eunuch artist. — Anthony Burgess Copy Share Image
What critics often ask for is the impossible, though this may be a salutary means of extending the borders of art. — Anthony Burgess Copy Share Image
The trouble began with Forster. After him it was considered ungentlemanly to write more than five or six novels. — Anthony Burgess Copy Share Image
Well, well, well, well. If it isn't fat, stinking billygoat Billy-Boy in poison. How art thou, thou globby bottle of cheap, stinking… — Anthony Burgess Copy Share Image
The 21st chapter gives the novel the quality of genuine fiction, an art founded on the principle that human beings change. -----… — Anthony Burgess Copy Share Image
A Haydn symphony had a meaning for the social group that listened to it. A Mahler symphony had a meaning for the… — Anthony Burgess Copy Share Image
“Look, I don't see why bad artists - I mean artists who are obviously incompetent... - why they should be presented hypocritically… — Anthony Burgess Copy Share Image
Delimitation is always difficult. The world is one, life is one. The sweetest and most heavenly of activities partake in some measure… — Anthony Burgess Copy Share Image
If you want to be considered a poet, you will have to show mastery of the petrarchan sonnet form or the sestina.… — Anthony Burgess Copy Share Image
The purpose of education is to fit us for life in a civilised community, and it seems to follow from the subjects… — Anthony Burgess Copy Share Image
This is great art, we've been told this by the great pundits of our age. And in consequence why should we bother… — Anthony Burgess Copy Share Image
“You've sinned, I suppose, but your punishment has been out of all proportion. They have turned you into something other than a… — Anthony Burgess Copy Share Image
“(James Joyce, in conversation with Carl Jung:)"Literary artists know more about the human mind than you fellers have a hope in hell… — Anthony Burgess Copy Share Image
A novelist should not be too intelligent either, although... he may be permitted to be an intellectual. — Anthony Burgess Copy Share
“A man who serves language, however imperfectly, should always serve truth.” — Anthony Burgess Copy Share
Rome's just a city like anywhere else. A vastly overrated city, I'd say. It trades on belief just as Stratford trades on Shakespeare. — Anthony Burgess Copy Share
The important thing is moral choice. Evil has to exist along with good, in order that moral choice may operate. Life is sustained by… — Anthony Burgess Copy Share
Without class differences, England would cease to be the living theatre it is. — Anthony Burgess Copy Share
The ideal reader of my novels is a lapsed Catholic and failed musician, short-sighted, colour-blind, auditorily biased, who has read the books that I… — Anthony Burgess Copy Share
... A CLOCKWORK ORANGE- and I said: 'That's a fair gloopy title. Who ever heard of a clockwork orange?' Then I read a malenky… — Anthony Burgess Copy Share
A work of fiction should be, for its author, a journey into the unknown, and the prose should convey the difficulties of the journey. — Anthony Burgess Copy Share
“They don't go into what is the cause of goodness, so why of the other shop? If lewdies are good that's because they like… — Anthony Burgess Copy Share
“By definition, a human being is endowed with free will. He can use this to choose between good and evil. If he can only… — Anthony Burgess Copy Share
