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Art Quotes by Cyril Connolly
- The reward of art is not fame or success but intoxication.
- Imagination is nostalgia for the past, the absent it is the liquid solution in which art develops the snapshot of reality.
- The true work of art is the one which the seventh wave of genius throws up the beach where the undertow of time cannot drag…
- The artist one day falls through a hole in the brambles, and from that moment he is following the dark rapids of an underground river…
- Literature is the art of writing something that will be read twice; journalism what will be grasped at once.
- There is no more sombre enemy of good art than the pram in the hall.
- There is no more somber enemy of good art than the pram in the hall
- Literature is the art of writing something that will be read twice; journalism what will be read once.
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