Art Quotes by D. H. Lawrence

The upshot was, my paintings must burn that English artists might finally learn.

— D. H. Lawrence

A museum is not a first-hand contact: it is an illustrated lecture. And what one wants is the actual vital touch.

— D. H. Lawrence

An artist is only an ordinary man with a greater potentiality.

— D. H. Lawrence

Since obscenity is the truth of our passion today, it is the only stuff of art -- or almost the only stuff.

— D. H. Lawrence

Art is a form of supremely delicate awareness... meaning at-oneness, the state of being at one with the object.

— D. H. Lawrence

Literature is a toil and a snare, a curse that bites deep.

— D. H. Lawrence

The picture must all come out of the artist's inside. It is the image that lives in the consciousness, alive like a…

— D. H. Lawrence

The war is dreadful. It is the business of the artist to follow it home to the heart of the individual fighters…

— D. H. Lawrence

Art is a form of supremely delicate awareness and atonement — meaning atoneness, the state of being at one with the object.

— D. H. Lawrence

Never trust the artist. Trust the tale. The proper function of the critic is to save the tale from the artist who…

— D. H. Lawrence

And every true artist is the salvation of every other. But only artists produce for each other the world that is fit…

— D. H. Lawrence

The picture must all come out of the artist's inside, awareness of forms and figures... It is more than memory. It is…

— D. H. Lawrence

Oh literature, oh the glorious Art, how it preys upon the marrow in our bones. It scoops the stuffing out of us,…

— D. H. Lawrence

The essential function of art is moral. But a passionate, implicit morality, not didactic. A morality which changes the blood, rather than…

— D. H. Lawrence

I have lived among enough painters and around studios to have had all the theories - and how contradictory they are -…

— D. H. Lawrence

Art- speech is the only truth. An artist is usually a damned liar but his art, if it be art, will tell…

— D. H. Lawrence

Design in art, is a recognition of the relation between various things, various elements in the creative flux. You can't invent a…

— D. H. Lawrence

Why has mankind had such a craving to be imposed upon? Why this lust after imposing creeds, imposing deeds, imposing buildings, imposing…

— D. H. Lawrence

After all, the world is not a stage-not to me: nor a theatre: nor a show-house of any sort. And art, especially…

— D. H. Lawrence

I always feel as if I stood naked for the fire of Almighty God to go through me--and it's rather an awful…

— D. H. Lawrence