Without magic, there is no art. Without art, there is no idealism. Without idealism, there is no integrity. Without integrity, there is… — Raymond Chandler Copy Share Image
The growth of populations has in no way increased the amount [of art], it has merely increased the adeptness with which substitutes… — Raymond Chandler Copy Share Image
The motion picture made in Hollywood, if it is to create art at all, must do so within such strangling limitations of… — Raymond Chandler Copy Share Image
“In everything that can be called art there is a quality of redemption. It may be pure tragedy, if it is high… — Raymond Chandler Copy Share Image
Everything a writer learns about the art or craft of fiction takes just a little away from his need or desire to… — Raymond Chandler Copy Share Image
“There are two kinds of truth: the truth that lights the way and the truth that warms the heart. The first of… — Raymond Chandler Copy Share Image
In everything that can be called art there is a quality of redemption. It may be pure tragedy, if it is high… — Raymond Chandler Copy Share Image
There are two kinds of truth; the truth that lights the way and the truth that warms the heart. The first of… — Raymond Chandler Copy Share Image
All art at some time and in some manner becomes mass entertainment, and if it does not it dies and is forgotten. — Raymond Chandler Copy Share Image
“And there are still a number of people around who say that Hammett didn't write detective stories at all-merely hard-boiled chronicles of… — Raymond Chandler Copy Share Image
There is something about the literary life that repels me, all this desperate building of castles on cobwebs, the long-drawn acrimonious struggle… — Raymond Chandler Copy Share Image
Hollywood is a showman's paradise. But showmen make nothing; they exploit what someone else has made. The publisher and the play producer… — Raymond Chandler Copy Share Image
There are no vital and significant forms of art; there is only art, and precious little of that. — Raymond Chandler Copy Share Image
When a book, any sort of book, reaches a certain intensity of artistic performance it becomes literature. — Raymond Chandler Copy Share Image
The truth of art keeps science from becoming inhuman, and the truth of science keeps art from becoming ridiculous. — Raymond Chandler Copy Share Image
“I believe...that to be very poor and very beautiful is most probably a moral failure more than an artistic success. Shakespeare would… — Raymond Chandler Copy Share Image
In everything that can be called art there is a quality of redemption. — Raymond Chandler Copy Share Image
The creative artist seems to be almost the only kind of man that you could never meet on neutral ground. You can… — Raymond Chandler Copy Share Image
I merely say that all reading for pleasure is escape, whether it be Greek, mathematics, astronomy, Benedetto Croce, or The Diary of… — Raymond Chandler Copy Share Image
Not only is the motion picture an art, but it is the one entirely new art that has been evolved on this… — Raymond Chandler Copy Share Image
An artist cannot deny art, nor would he want to. A lover cannot deny love. — Raymond Chandler Copy Share Image
Any man who can write a page of living prose adds something to our life, and the man who can, as I… — Raymond Chandler Copy Share Image
There are two kinds of truth; The truth that lights the way and the truth that warms the heart. The fist of… — Raymond Chandler Copy Share Image
When a book, any sort of book, reaches a certain intensity of artistic performance, it becomes literature. That intensity may be a… — Raymond Chandler Copy Share Image
Television's perfect. You turn a few knobs, a few of those mechanical adjustments at which the higher apes are so proficient, and lean back… — Raymond Chandler Copy Share Image
Common sense is the guy who tells you that you ought to have had your brakes relined last week before you smashed a front… — Raymond Chandler Copy Share Image
“Hammett was the ace performer... He is said to have lacked heart; yet the story he himself thought the most of [The Glass Key]… — Raymond Chandler Copy Share Image
She jerked away from me like a startled fawn might, if I had a startled fawn and it jerked away from me. — Raymond Chandler Copy Share Image
Dashiell Hammett took murder out of theVenetian vase and dropped it into the alley. — Raymond Chandler Copy Share Image
“He [James Cain] is every kind of writer I detest...a Proust in greasy overalls, a dirty little boy with a piece of chalk and… — Raymond Chandler Copy Share Image
It was a blonde. A blonde to make a bishop kick a hole in a stained-glass window. — Raymond Chandler Copy Share Image
“I had been stalking the bluebottle fly for five minutes, waiting for him to sit down. He didn't want to sit down. He just… — Raymond Chandler Copy Share Image
“A three-piece Mexican band was making the kind of music a Mexican band always makes. Whatever they play, it all sounds the same. They… — Raymond Chandler Copy Share Image
