Art Quote by Glen Duncan

“No artist knows everything... but since every artist knows more than he can tell, all art is lying by omission.”

Glen Duncan

★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.9 out of 5 (8 ratings)

Art Art is Artist Goals Knows Lying Lying By Omission Omission

More by Glen Duncan

Nineteenth-century English literature I know; 19th-century sewage systems, not so much.

Glen Duncan

Image

“For the longest time the romantic explanation for low rates of female infection endured: Possession of a womb, it was supposed, conferred a gentleness which simply could not bear the viciousness of a lycanthropic heart. Female werewolves, masculine idiocy maintained, must be killing themselves in crazy numbers...It's quite extraordinary, given the wealth of historical evidence to the contrary, how long…

Glen Duncan

“The question 'What was there before creation?' is meaningless. Time is a property of creation, therefore before creation there was no before creation.”

Glen Duncan

Image

“The beauty spot by her lip was one of a dozen or so scattered over her body. My new constellations.”

Glen Duncan

Image

Fairy tales read before bed tend to make me dream. They're all quite violent stories, as are my dreams.

Glen Duncan

Image

I don’t know where the universe came from or what happens to creatures when they die. I don’t know if the whole thing’s an…

Glen Duncan

Image

In a fit of pique, I said to my agent, 'I'm going to write something you can sell.' The idea was to write a…

Glen Duncan

Image

“The Mortals are free, Lucifer. What they've done they've done from within themselves. - Raphael”

Glen Duncan

One day the ordinariness will be terminally punctuated by the extraordinary full stop of death.

Glen Duncan

Image

When I see gurgling retarded children (that's God's doing, by the way, not mine) happily styling their hair with their own stinking mards, I…

Glen Duncan

Image

“She understood the genre constraints, the decencies we were supposed to be observing. The morally cosy vision allows the embrace of monstrosity only as a reaction to suffering or as an act of rage against the Almighty. Vampire interviewee Louis is in despair at his brother’s death when he accepts Lestat’s offer. Frankenstein’s creature is driven to violence by the…

Glen Duncan

“Show us the world's not the way we thought it was and part of us rejoices.”

Glen Duncan

Image

Explore all 259 Glen Duncan quotes

More Art quotes

True works of art contain their own theory and give us the measurement according to which we should judge them.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Image

Before Noah, men having only water to drink, could not find the truth. Accordingly...they became abominably wicked, and they were justly exterminated by the water they loved to drink. This good man, Noah, having seen that all his contemporaries had perished by this unpleasant drink, took a dislike to it; and God, to relieve his dryness, created the vine and…

Benjamin Franklin

“Hear the sum of the whole matter in the compass of one brief word — every art possessed by man comes from Prometheus.”

Aeschylus

Image

I think most artists feel like they're outside society - no matter how many accolades they receive, or how much money is in your…

Aaron Rose

Image

The capacity to be puzzled is the premise of all creation, be it in art or in science.

Erich Fromm

Image

That's the great secret of creativity. You treat ideas like cats: you make them follow you.

Ray Bradbury

Image

“So, really," continued Jacob as if this were perfectly normal to expound on art in these circumstances, "when you think about it, the artists who make people stop and think, who push the form, who make you uncomfortable, who are laughable, well, they're the ones who get remembered." Idly, Jacob dug a hole in the snow with his shovel and…

Justina Chen Headley