Art Quotes by Robertson Davies

The art of the quoter is to know when to stop.

— Robertson Davies

Art is wine and experience is the brandy we distill from it.

— Robertson Davies

The division between art and deviousness and crime is sometimes as thin as a cigarette paper.

— Robertson Davies

All art is holy. Not that it is all long-faced and miserable; it can be wild and wooly. But if it transforms…

— Robertson Davies

Imagination is a good horse to carry you over the ground - not a flying carpet to set you free from probability.

— Robertson Davies

We wanted to meet him, for though we were neither of us naive people we had not wholly lost our belief that…

— Robertson Davies

The clerisy are those who seek, and find, delight and enlargement of life in books. The clerisy are those for whom reading…

— Robertson Davies

The drama may be called that part of theatrical art which lends itself most readily to intellectual discussion: what is left is…

— Robertson Davies

Art is always at peril in universities, where there are so many people, young and old, who love art less than argument,…

— Robertson Davies

It is those pent-up, craving children who make all the wars and all the horrors and all the art and all the…

— Robertson Davies

Literary critics, however, frequently suffer from a curious belief that every author longs to extend the boundaries of literary art, wants to…

— Robertson Davies

“Need we go into details about what I said to Judy? I am no poet, and I suppose what I said was…

— Robertson Davies

The truth is that art does not teach; it makes you feel, and any teaching that may arise from the feeling is…

— Robertson Davies