Artist Quotes by Lawrence Durrell

Art like life is an open secret.

— Lawrence Durrell

The effective in art is what rapes the emotions of your audience without nourishing its values.

— Lawrence Durrell

All artists today are expected to cultivate a little fashionable unhappiness.

— Lawrence Durrell

The heaviest impact of the work of art is in the guts. Art does not reason. It manhandles you and changes you...

— Lawrence Durrell

Everyone loathes his own country and countrymen if he is any sort of artist.

— Lawrence Durrell

Life, the raw material, is only lived in potentia until the artist deploys it in his work.

— Lawrence Durrell

“A puritan culture’s conception of art is something which will endorse its morality and flatter its patriotism.”

— Lawrence Durrell

“the indifference of the natural world to the constructions of art”

— Lawrence Durrell

I see artists as a great battalion moving through paint, words, music towards cosmological interpretation.

— Lawrence Durrell

The artist's work constitutes the only satisfactory relationship he can have with his fellow men since he seeks his real friends among…

— Lawrence Durrell

For us artists there waits the joyous compromise through art with all that wounded or defeated us in daily life; in this…

— Lawrence Durrell

Art—the meaning of the pattern of our common actions in reality. The cloth-of-gold that hides behind the sackcloth of reality, forced out…

— Lawrence Durrell

“Underneath an artist's preoccupations with sex, society, religion, etc. (all the staple abstractions that allow the forebrain to chatter) there is a…

— Lawrence Durrell

“If you are born of the artist tribe it is a waste of time to try and function as a priest. You…

— Lawrence Durrell