John Banville Quotes About Art

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  • All a work of art can do is present the surface. I can't know the insides of people. I know very little about the inside of myself.

  • All art at a certain level is entertainment. We go to a tragedy by Sophocles to be entertained.

  • Poetry is that magic which consists in awakening sensations with the help of a combination of sounds ... that sorcery by which ideas are necessarily communicated to us, in a definite way, by words which nevertheless do not express them.

  • Art is amoral, whether we accept this or not; it does not take sides. The finest fictions are cold at heart.

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