Art Quotes by Stephen Fry

14 Art quotes by Stephen Fry

Stephen Fry’s fourteen musings on art sparkle with his characteristic humor and erudition. The collection is short but lively, offering a pleasant glimpse into his creative musings.

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I don't watch television, I think it destroys the art of talking about oneself.

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I don't watch TV. I think it destroys the art of talking about oneself.

Stephen Fry

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I'm absolute attacking my own instinct for politeness, but I think I admire artists who just speak out or who are strong,…

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I never quite dare to believe I'm brave enough to be an artist, but I'm on the side of artists. I think…

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“It may be that The Great Gatsby is as perfect, word for word, just in terms of English; but Ulysses is deeper,…

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It is the useless things that make life worth living and that make life dangerous too: wine, love, art, beauty. Without them…

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Oscar Wilde quite rightly said, 'All art is useless'. And that may sound as if that means it's something not worth supporting.…

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I said it before and I’ll say it again: books are dead, plays are dead, poems are dead: there’s only movies. Music…

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What other developed democracy has such a ridiculous and squalid history of intolerance? From the imprisonment and roasting of heretics, witches and…

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“Come to think of it I don't know that love has a point, which is what makes it so glorious. Sex has…

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Norwich is a fine city. None finer. If there is another city in the United Kingdom with a school of painters named…

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It's as if scientists exert every effort of will they possess deliberately to find the least significant problems in the world and…

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“Thalia The finest, funniest, friendliest Muse of all, THALIA supervised the comic arts and idyllic poetry. Her name derives from the Greek…

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“Lies, fictions and untrue suppositions can create new human truths which build technology, art, language, everything that is distinctly of Man. The…

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To me, reason is as spiritual as anything else, the beauty of reason seems to me indelible and ineffable and numinous... the spirit is…

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The stranger might laugh and seem to enjoy the writing, but you hug to yourself the thought that they didn't quite understand its force…

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“The future is a much bigger deal than the past,”

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I gather a repulsive nobody writing in a paper no one of any decency would be seen dead with has written something loathesome and…

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I've never had any illusions about being a lead actor in films, because lead actors have to be of a certain kind. Apart from…

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Because, let's face it, I do not get offered the parts that Brad Pitt has just turned down.

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I will defend the absolute value of Mozart over Miley Cyrus, of course I will, but we should be wary of false dichotomies. You…

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