All artists today are expected to cultivate a little fashionable unhappiness. — Lawrence Durrell Copy Share Image
The effective in art is what rapes the emotions of your audience without nourishing its values. — Lawrence Durrell Copy Share Image
Everyone loathes his own country and countrymen if he is any sort of artist. — Lawrence Durrell Copy Share Image
Life, the raw material, is only lived in potentia until the artist deploys it in his work. — Lawrence Durrell Copy Share Image
I see artists as a great battalion moving through paint, words, music towards cosmological interpretation. — Lawrence Durrell Copy Share Image
The artist's work constitutes the only satisfactory relationship he can have with his fellow men since he seeks his real friends among… — Lawrence Durrell Copy Share Image
For us artists there waits the joyous compromise through art with all that wounded or defeated us in daily life; in this… — Lawrence Durrell Copy Share Image
Journeys, like artists, are born and not made. A thousand differing circumstances contribute to them, few of them willed or determined by… — Lawrence Durrell Copy Share Image
“Underneath an artist's preoccupations with sex, society, religion, etc. (all the staple abstractions that allow the forebrain to chatter) there is a… — Lawrence Durrell Copy Share Image
The heaviest impact of the work of art is in the guts. Art does not reason. It manhandles you and changes you... — Lawrence Durrell Copy Share Image
“the indifference of the natural world to the constructions of art” — Lawrence Durrell Copy Share Image
“A puritan culture’s conception of art is something which will endorse its morality and flatter its patriotism.” — Lawrence Durrell Copy Share Image
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… — Lawrence Durrell Copy Share Image
“No one thing can explain everything; though everything can illuminate something. God, I must be still drunk. If God were anything he… — Lawrence Durrell Copy Share Image
“If you are born of the artist tribe it is a waste of time to try and function as a priest. You… — Lawrence Durrell Copy Share Image
Life is more complicated than we think, yet far simpler than anyone dares to imagine — Lawrence Durrell Copy Share Image
“Suddenly at the end of the great couloir my vision is sharpened by a pale disjunctive shudder as a bar of buttercup-yellow thickening gradually… — Lawrence Durrell Copy Share Image
To be the equal of reality you must learn how to ignore it without danger. — Lawrence Durrell Copy Share Image
The cocktail party - as the name itself indicates - was originally invented by dogs. They are simply bottom-sniffings raised to the rank of… — Lawrence Durrell Copy Share Image
It only takes one match to ignite a haystack, or one remark to fire a mind. — Lawrence Durrell Copy Share Image
“He felt that his mind had become a battle-ground for the forces of good and evil and that his task was to strain every… — Lawrence Durrell Copy Share Image
Science is the poetry of the intellect and poetry the science of the heart's affections. — Lawrence Durrell Copy Share Image
We live" writes Pursewarden somewhere, "lives based upon selected fictions. Our view of reality is conditioned by our position in space and time -… — Lawrence Durrell Copy Share Image
It's unthinkable not to love -you'd have a severe nervous breakdown. Or you'd have to be Philip Larkin. — Lawrence Durrell Copy Share Image
“God did not create us, nor did He wish us to be created. We are the work of a lesser deity, a demiurge, who… — Lawrence Durrell Copy Share Image
