Art Quotes by Virginia Woolf

To read a novel is a difficult and complex art.

— Virginia Woolf

Intimacy is a difficult art.

— Virginia Woolf

All artists need a room of their own

— Virginia Woolf

The artist after all is a solitary being.

— Virginia Woolf

Writing is a divine art, and the more I write and read the more I love it.

— Virginia Woolf

The art of writing has for backbone some fierce attachment to an idea.

— Virginia Woolf

There are no teachers, saints, prophets, good people, but the artists.

— Virginia Woolf

You cannot cross the narrow bridge of art carrying all its tools in your hands. Some you must leave behind.

— Virginia Woolf

It is probable that both in life and in art the values of a woman are not the values of a man.

— Virginia Woolf

Really I don't like human nature unless all candied over with art.

— Virginia Woolf

Art is not a copy of the real world; one of the damn things is enough.

— Virginia Woolf

if newspapers were written by people whose sole object in writing was to tell the truth about politics and the truth about…

— Virginia Woolf

“Every woman, even the most respectable, had roses blooming under glass; lips cut with a knife; curls of Indian ink; there was…

— Virginia Woolf

The mind of an artist, in order to achieve the prodigious effort of freeing whole and entire the work that is in…

— Virginia Woolf

One should aim, seriously, at disregarding ups and downs; a compliment here, silence there ... the central fact remains stable, which is…

— Virginia Woolf

We live in constant danger of coming apart. The mystery of why we do not always come apart is the animating tension…

— Virginia Woolf

It is the nature of the artist to mind excessively what is said about him. Literature is strewn with the wreckage of…

— Virginia Woolf

“And if we can imagine the art of fiction come alive and standing in our midst, she would undoubtedly bid us break…

— Virginia Woolf

Who would not spout the family teapot in order to talk with Keats for an hour about poetry, or with Jane Austen…

— Virginia Woolf

Behind the cotton wool is hidden a pattern; that we—I mean all human beings—are connected with this; that the whole world is…

— Virginia Woolf

“Yet she said to herself, from the dawn of time odes have been sung to love; wreathes heaped and roses; and if…

— Virginia Woolf

Some collaboration has to take place in the mind between the woman and the man before the art of creation can be…

— Virginia Woolf

“The proper stuff of fiction” does not exist everything is the proper stuff of fiction every feeling every thought every quality of…

— Virginia Woolf

A strange thing has happened - while all the other arts were born naked, this, the youngest, has been born fully-clothed. It…

— Virginia Woolf

“Ah, but thinking became morbid, sentimental, directly one began conjuring up doctors, dead bodies; a little glow of pleasure, a sort of…

— Virginia Woolf

“One holds every phrase, every scene to the light as one reads - for Nature seems, very oddly, to have provided us…

— Virginia Woolf

“She was intensely sympathetic. She was immensely charming. She was utterly unselfish. She excelled in the difficult arts if family life. She…

— Virginia Woolf

“And so they would go on talking or rather, understanding, which has become the main art of speech in an age when…

— Virginia Woolf

“What one means by integrity, in the case of the novelist, is the conviction that he gives one that this is the…

— Virginia Woolf

“It cannot be denied that the most successful practitioners of the art of life, often unknown people by the way, somehow contrive…

— Virginia Woolf

“…the art of writing has for backbone some fierce attachment to an idea…. It is on the back of an idea, something…

— Virginia Woolf

... if we can imagine the art of fiction come alive and standing in our midst, she would undoubtedly bid us to…

— Virginia Woolf

To read a novel is a difficult and complex art. You must be capable not only of great fineness of perception, but…

— Virginia Woolf

What is a woman? I assure you, I do not know ... I do not believe that anybody can know until she…

— Virginia Woolf

“Perhaps this is the strongest pleasure known to me. It is the rapture I get when in writing I seem to be…

— Virginia Woolf

“...she imagined how in the chambers of the mind and heart of the woman who was, physically, touching her, were stood, like…

— Virginia Woolf

“being an artist: "And this susceptibility of theirs is doubly unfortunate , I thought, returning again to my original enquiry into what…

— Virginia Woolf