"The upshot was, my paintings must burn that……" — D. H. Lawrence

"The upshot was, my paintings must burn that English artists might finally learn."

— D. H. Lawrence

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441 Quotes by D. H. Lawrence

D. H. Lawrence has 441 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

She is my first, great love. She was a wonderful, rare woman - you do not know; as strong, and…
And if tonight my soul may find her peace in sleep, and sink in good oblivion, and in the morning…
I cannot cure myself of that most woeful of youth's follies - thinking that those who care about us will…
Men always do leave off really thinking, when the last bit of wild animal dies in them.
Never trust the teller, trust the tale.
Another head - and a black alpaca jacket and a serviette this time - to tell us coffee is ready.…
But the effort, the effort! And as the marrow is eaten out of a man's bones and the soul out…
Brute force crushes many plants. Yet the plants rise again. The Pyramids will not last a moment compared with the…
And what's romance? Usually, a nice little tale where you have everything As You Like It, where rain never wets…
They say the sea is cold, but the sea contains the hottest blood of all, and the wildest, the most…
That which one cannot experience in daily life is not true for oneself.
Freedom is a very great reality, but it means above all things, freedom from lies.

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Let each man exercise the art he knows. — Aristophanes
I think an artist, in my definition of that word, would not be someone who takes sides with the emperor… — Chinua Achebe
Art is our chief means of breaking bread with the dead. — Wystan Hugh Auden
Of all possible subjects, travel is the most difficult for an artist, as it is the easiest for a journalist. — Wystan Hugh Auden
All works of art are commissioned in the sense that no artist can create one by a simple act of… — Wystan Hugh Auden
A revised schedule is to business what a new season is to an athlete or a new canvas to an… — Norman Ralph Augustine
Being a cover artist is not like being a real artist. That's just copying what someone else did. — Sebastian Bach
I do struggle with how much and in which way, as an artist or celebrity, that you voice your political… — Kevin Bacon
The job of the artist is always to deepen the mystery. — Francis Bacon
I'm not a driven businessman, but a driven artist. I never think about money. Beautiful things make money. — Lord Acton
I have a master plan as an artist. I've always said I'm not going to be punching nobody's clock. I… — Erykah Badu
Artists need some kind of stimulating experience a lot of times, which crystallizes when you sing about it or paint… — Erykah Badu

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