--- title: "4 Artistic Quotes By Raymond Chandler" description: "4 Artistic quotes by Raymond Chandler. Plus more from Raymond Chandler and more Artistic sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b7d/raymond-chandler-629_art_when-a-book-any-sort-of-book-reaches-a-c_2047531.jpg" --- > [When a book, any sort of book, reaches a certain intensity of artistic performance it becomes literature.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/raymond-chandler/when-a-book-any-sort-of-book-reaches-a-certain-intensity-of-artistic/) [Raymond Chandler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/raymond-chandler/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b7d/raymond-chandler-629_art_when-a-book-any-sort-of-book-reaches-a-c_2047531.jpg) > [The perfect detective story cannot be written. The type of mind which can evolve the perfect problem is not the type of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/raymond-chandler/the-perfect-detective-story-cannot-be-written-the-type-of-mind-which/) [Raymond Chandler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/raymond-chandler/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/3ae/raymond-chandler-629_artistic_the-perfect-detective-story-cannot-be-wr_2068319.jpg) > [Some are able and humane men and some are low-grade individuals with the morals of a goat, the artistic integrity of a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/raymond-chandler/some-are-able-and-humane-men-and-some-are-low-grade-individuals-with/) [Raymond Chandler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/raymond-chandler/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e5f/raymond-chandler-629_able_some-are-able-and-humane-men-and-some-ar_2375656.jpg) > [When a book, any sort of book, reaches a certain intensity of artistic performance, it becomes literature. That intensity may be a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/raymond-chandler/when-a-book-any-sort-of-book-reaches-a-certain-intensity-of-artistic-2/) [Raymond Chandler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/raymond-chandler/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/819/raymond-chandler-629_art_when-a-book-any-sort-of-book-reaches-a-c_3097947.jpg) ## Other authors on Artistic - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b019/author-oscar-wilde-72846.jpg) Oscar Wilde 10 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/artistic/oscar-wilde/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b010/author-gilbert-k-chesterton-38545.jpg) Gilbert K. Chesterton 9 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/artistic/gilbert-k-chesterton/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b024/author-vincent-van-gogh-93793.jpg) Vincent Van Gogh 8 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/artistic/vincent-van-gogh/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b014/author-julia-cameron-54149.jpg) Julia Cameron 6 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/artistic/julia-cameron/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b010/author-george-saunders-37966.jpg) George Saunders 6 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/artistic/george-saunders/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b006/author-camille-paglia-20735.jpg) Camille Paglia 6 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/artistic/camille-paglia/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b005/author-billy-corgan-18126.jpg) Billy Corgan 6 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/artistic/billy-corgan/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b004/author-andrei-tarkovsky-12850.jpg) Andrei Tarkovsky 6 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/artistic/andrei-tarkovsky/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b014/author-john-walford-52464.jpg) John Walford 5 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/artistic/john-walford/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b013/author-johann-wolfgang-von-goethe-50782.jpg) Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 5 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/artistic/johann-wolfgang-von-goethe/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b013/author-jerry-saltz-49147.jpg) Jerry Saltz 5 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/artistic/jerry-saltz/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b010/author-friedrich-nietzsche-36363.jpg) Friedrich Nietzsche 5 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/artistic/friedrich-nietzsche/) ## More by Raymond Chandler > [Television's perfect. You turn a few knobs, a few of those mechanical adjustments at which the higher apes are so proficient, and lean back…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/raymond-chandler/television-s-perfect-you-turn-a-few-knobs-a-few-of-those-mechanical/) [Raymond Chandler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/raymond-chandler/) > [There is no trap so deadly as the trap you set for yourself.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/raymond-chandler/there-is-no-trap-so-deadly-as-the-trap-you-set-for-yourself/) [Raymond Chandler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/raymond-chandler/) > [Common sense is the guy who tells you that you ought to have had your brakes relined last week before you smashed a front…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/raymond-chandler/common-sense-is-the-guy-who-tells-you-that-you-ought-to-have-had-your/) [Raymond Chandler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/raymond-chandler/) > [ “Hammett was the ace performer... He is said to have lacked heart; yet the story he himself thought the most of \[The Glass Key\]… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/raymond-chandler/hammett-was-the-ace-performer-he-is-said-to-have-lacked-heart-yet-the/) [Raymond Chandler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/raymond-chandler/) > [She jerked away from me like a startled fawn might, if I had a startled fawn and it jerked away from me.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/raymond-chandler/she-jerked-away-from-me-like-a-startled-fawn-might-if-i-had-a/) [Raymond Chandler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/raymond-chandler/) > [A good story cannot be devised; it has to be distilled.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/raymond-chandler/a-good-story-cannot-be-devised-it-has-to-be-distilled/) [Raymond Chandler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/raymond-chandler/) > [Dashiell Hammett took murder out of theVenetian vase and dropped it into the alley.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/raymond-chandler/dashiell-hammett-took-murder-out-of-thevenetian-vase-and-dropped-it/) [Raymond Chandler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/raymond-chandler/) > [ “He \[James Cain\] is every kind of writer I detest...a Proust in greasy overalls, a dirty little boy with a piece of chalk and… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/raymond-chandler/he-james-cain-is-every-kind-of-writer-i-detest-a-proust-in-greasy/) [Raymond Chandler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/raymond-chandler/) > [It was a blonde. A blonde to make a bishop kick a hole in a stained-glass window.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/raymond-chandler/it-was-a-blonde-a-blonde-to-make-a-bishop-kick-a-hole-in-a-stained/) [Raymond Chandler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/raymond-chandler/) > [“I had been stalking the bluebottle fly for five minutes, waiting for him to sit down. He didn't want to sit down. He just…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/raymond-chandler/i-had-been-stalking-the-bluebottle-fly-for-five-minutes-waiting-for/) [Raymond Chandler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/raymond-chandler/) > [“A three-piece Mexican band was making the kind of music a Mexican band always makes. Whatever they play, it all sounds the same. They…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/raymond-chandler/a-three-piece-mexican-band-was-making-the-kind-of-music-a-mexican/) [Raymond Chandler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/raymond-chandler/) > [Mostly I just kill time," he said, "and it dies hard.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/raymond-chandler/mostly-i-just-kill-time-he-said-and-it-dies-hard/) [Raymond Chandler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/raymond-chandler/) > [“The book was not new. Dates were stamped on the front endpaper, in and out dates. A rent book. A lending library of elaborate…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/raymond-chandler/the-book-was-not-new-dates-were-stamped-on-the-front-endpaper-in-and/) [Raymond Chandler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/raymond-chandler/) > [Without magic, there is no art. Without art, there is no idealism. Without idealism, there is no integrity. Without integrity, there is nothing but…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/raymond-chandler/without-magic-there-is-no-art-without-art-there-is-no-idealism/) [Raymond Chandler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/raymond-chandler/) > [“The homicide skipper that year was a Captain Gregorius, a type of copper that is getting rarer but by no means extinct, the kind…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/raymond-chandler/the-homicide-skipper-that-year-was-a-captain-gregorius-a-type-of/) [Raymond Chandler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/raymond-chandler/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/artistic/raymond-chandler/#itemlist", "name": "4 Artistic Quotes By Raymond Chandler", "numberOfItems": 4, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "When a book, any sort of book, reaches a certain intensity of artistic performance it becomes literature.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Raymond Chandler" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/raymond-chandler/when-a-book-any-sort-of-book-reaches-a-certain-intensity-of-artistic/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b7d/raymond-chandler-629_art_when-a-book-any-sort-of-book-reaches-a-c_2047531.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b7d/raymond-chandler-629_art_when-a-book-any-sort-of-book-reaches-a-c_2047531.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b7d/raymond-chandler-629_art_when-a-book-any-sort-of-book-reaches-a-c_2047531.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“When a book, any sort of book, reaches a certain intensity of artistic performance it becomes literature.” — Raymond Chandler", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 2, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "The perfect detective story cannot be written. 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