the law, like art, is always vainly racing to catch up with experience. — Rebecca West Copy Share Image
What is art? It is not decoration. It is the re-living of experience. — Rebecca West Copy Share Image
I cannot see that art is anything less than a way of making joys perpetual. — Rebecca West Copy Share Image
There is no logical reason why the camel of great art should pass through the needle of mob intelligence. — Rebecca West Copy Share Image
Art and propaganda have this much connection, that if a propaganda makes art impossible, it is clearly damned. — Rebecca West Copy Share Image
A copy of the universe is not what is required of art; one of the damned things is ample. — Rebecca West Copy Share Image
Any authentic work of art must start an argument between the artist and his audience. — Rebecca West Copy Share Image
Bad art is maintained by the neurotic, who is deadly afraid of authentic art because it inspires him to go on living,… — Rebecca West Copy Share Image
“we disgust works of art by our meaninglessness, our diffuseness in time which lets us drift through three score years and ten… — Rebecca West Copy Share Image
Art is not a plaything, but a necessity, and its essence, form, is not a decorative adjustment, but a cup into which… — Rebecca West Copy Share Image
There is a point, and it is reached more easily than is supposed, where interference with freedom of the arts and literature… — Rebecca West Copy Share Image
The delight we find in art amounts to recognition of a saving grace, to an acknowledgment that the problem of life has… — Rebecca West Copy Share Image
works of art feel towards human beings exactly as we do towards ghosts. The transparency of spectres, the diffuseness in space which… — Rebecca West Copy Share Image
But once a culture develops sufficiently to become skeptical, the idea of censorship becomes less attractive. To suppress a book or a… — Rebecca West Copy Share Image
“Art is not a plaything, but a necessity, and its essence, form, is not a decorative adjustment, but a cup into which… — Rebecca West Copy Share Image
“What is art? It is not decoration. It is the re-living of experience. The artist says, 'I will make that event happen… — Rebecca West Copy Share Image
art is at least in part a way of collecting information about the universe. — Rebecca West Copy Share Image
every human activity, whether it be love, philosophy, art, or revolution, is carried on with a special intensity in Paris. — Rebecca West Copy Share Image
whatever a work of art may be, the artist certainly cannot dare to be simple. He must have a nature as complicated… — Rebecca West Copy Share Image
I see the main problem of my life, and indeed anybody's life, as the balancing of competitive freedoms ... a sense of mutual obligations… — Rebecca West Copy Share Image
“There is, of course, no reason for the existence of the male sex except that sometimes one needs help with moving the piano.” — Rebecca West Copy Share Image
“At the top of a hill our automobile stuck in a snowdrift. Peasants ran out of a cottage near by, shouting with laughter because… — Rebecca West Copy Share Image
We all drew on the comfort which is given out by the major works of Mozart, which is as real and material as the… — Rebecca West Copy Share Image
Christianity must be regarded not as a final revelation but as a phase of revelation. — Rebecca West Copy Share Image
Art and propaganda have this much connection, that if a propaganda makes art impossible, it is clearly damned. — Rebecca West Copy Share Image
The American struggle for the vote was much more difficult than the English for the simple reason that it was much more easy. — Rebecca West Copy Share Image
Like all bad drivers, he [Henry Andrews] thought he was the best driver in the world... — Rebecca West Copy Share Image
The childhood of the individual and the race is full of fears, and panic-stricken attempts to avert what is feared by placating the gods… — Rebecca West Copy Share Image
[On Jane Austen:] To believe her limited in range because she was harmonious in method is as sensible as to imagine that when the… — Rebecca West Copy Share Image
a good oyster cannot please the palate as acutely as a bad one can revolt it, and a good oyster cannot make him who… — Rebecca West Copy Share Image
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