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Cyril Connolly Quotes about Art

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There is no more sombre enemy of good art than the pram in the hall.

There is no more sombre enemy of good art than the pram in the hall.

Cyril Connolly
Art, Enemy, Atheism
Enemies of Promise (1938) ch. 14

The reward of art is not fame or success but intoxication.

Cyril Connolly
Life, Beautiful, Art
"The Unquiet Grave" by Cyril Connolly, (Part 2), 1951.

The artist is a member of the leisured classes who cannot pay for his leisure.

Cyril Connolly
Art, Class, Leisure
David Pryce-Jones, Cyril Connolly (1984). “Cyril Connolly: Journal and Memoir”

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 it back.

Cyril Connolly
Beach, Art, Genius

Literature is the art of writing something that will be read twice; journalism what will be grasped at once.

Cyril Connolly
Art, Writing, Literature
Enemies of Promise (1938) ch. 3

He [George Orwell] would not blow his nose without moralising on conditions in the handkerchief industry.

Cyril Connolly
Art, Blow, Noses

Imagination is nostalgia for the past, the absent it is the liquid solution in which art develops the snapshot of reality.

Cyril Connolly
Art, Past, Reality

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 which may sometimes flow so near to the surface that the laughing picnic parties are heard above.

Cyril Connolly
Art, Fall, Dark

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