Elizabeth Bowen Quotes About Art
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Art, at any rate in a novel, must be indissolubly linked with craft.
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Art is one thing that can go on mattering once it has stopped hurting.
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I am dead against art's being self-expression. I see an inherent failure in any story which fails to detach itself from the author-detach itself in the sense that a well-blown soap-bubble detaches itself from the bowl of the blower's pipe and spherically takes off into the air as a new, whole, pure, iridescent world. Whereas the ill-blown bubble, as children know, timidly adheres to the bowl's lip, then either bursts or sinks flatly back again.
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Illusions are art, for the feeling person, and it is by art that we live, if we do.
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Art is for [the Irish] inseparable from artifice: of that, the theatre is the home. Possibly, it was England made me a novelist.
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