The practise of an art is essential to the whole man, not because of what art is but because of what art… — John Fowles Copy Share Image
Thomas Beecham was a pompous little band-master who stood against everything creative in the art of his time. — John Fowles Copy Share Image
Art is a statement of one in the face of all; not a statement by one for the use of all. — John Fowles Copy Share Image
Art's cruel. You can get away with murder with words. But a picture is like a window straight through to your inmost… — John Fowles Copy Share Image
Edith Sitwell's interest in art was largely confined to portraits of herself. — John Fowles Copy Share Image
“It’s rather like your voice. You put up with your voice and speak with it because you haven’t any choice. But it’s… — John Fowles Copy Share Image
Each age, each guilty age, builds high walls around its Versailles; and personally I hate those walls most when they are made… — John Fowles Copy Share Image
“He said, I suppose there are people who are purely moved by great art. I never met a painter who was. I'm… — John Fowles Copy Share Image
Do you know that every great thing in the history of art and every beautiful thing in life is actually what you… — John Fowles Copy Share Image
“They pay thousands and thousands for the Van Goghs and Modiglianis they'd have spat on at the time they were painted. Guffawed… — John Fowles Copy Share Image
“The truth about any artist, however terrible, is better than the silence… I know many writers fight fanatically to keep their published… — John Fowles Copy Share Image
“He said, one has to learn that painting well - in the academic and technical sense - comes right at the bottom… — John Fowles Copy Share Image
“If you are a real artist, you give your whole being to your art. Anything short of that, then you are not… — John Fowles Copy Share Image
“8. You hate the political buisness of nationality. You hate everything, in politics and art and everything else, that is not genuine… — John Fowles Copy Share Image
I do not plan my fiction any more than I normally plan woodland walks; I follow the path that seems most promising at any… — John Fowles Copy Share Image
“The sky is absolutely empty. Beautifully pure and empty. As if the architects and builders would live in all the houses they built! Or… — John Fowles Copy Share Image
“The evolution of human mentality has put us all in vitro now, behind the glass wall of our own ingenuity.” — John Fowles Copy Share Image
Most marriages recognize this paradox: Passion destroys passion; we want what puts an end to wanting what we want. — John Fowles Copy Share Image
That is the great distinction between the sexes. Men see objects, women see the relationships between objects. — John Fowles Copy Share Image
The craving to risk death is our last great perversion. We come from night, we go into night. Why live in night? — John Fowles Copy Share Image
There is only one good definition of God: the freedom that allows other freedoms to exist. — John Fowles Copy Share Image
“Long afterwards I realized why some men, racing drivers and their like, become addicted to speed. There are those of us who never see… — John Fowles Copy Share Image
But however good you get at translating personality into line or paint it's no go if your personality isn't worth translating. — John Fowles Copy Share Image
