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D. H. Lawrence Quotes about Art

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The business of art is to reveal the relation between man and his environment.

The business of art is to reveal the relation between man and his environment.

Art, Men, Relation

I have lived among enough painters and around studios to have had all the theories - and how contradictory they are - rammed down my throat. A man has to have a gizzard like an ostrich to digest all the brass-tacks and wire nails of modern art theories.

Art, Men, Ostriches

D. H. Lawrence, James T. Boulton (2004). “D. H. Lawrence: Late Essays and Articles”, p.228, Cambridge University Press

We have lost the art of living, and in the most important science of all, the science of daily life, the science of behavior, we are complete ignoramuses. We have psychology instead.

Art, Science, Psychology

A museum is not a first-hand contact: it is an illustrated lecture. And what one wants is the actual vital touch.

Art, Museums, Hands

D.H. Lawrence (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)”, p.7617, Delphi Classics

After all, the world is not a stage-not to me: nor a theatre: nor a show-house of any sort. And art, especially novels, are not little theatres where the reader sits aloft and watches...and sighs, commiserates, condones and smiles. That's what you want a book to be: because it leaves you so safe and superior, with your two-dollar ticket to the show. And that's what my books are not and never will be...Whoever reads me will be in the thick of the scrimmage, and if he doesn't like it if he wants a safe seat in the audience-let him read someone else.

Art, Book, Reading

The essential function of art is moral. But a passionate, implicit morality, not didactic. A morality which changes the blood, rather than the mind.

Art, Motherhood, Blood

D. H. Lawrence, Ezra Greenspan, Lindeth Vasey (2003). “Studies in Classic American Literature”, p.155, Cambridge University Press

Design in art, is a recognition of the relation between various things, various elements in the creative flux. You can't invent a design. You recognize it, in the fourth dimension. That is, with your blood and your bones, as well as with your eyes.

Art, Eye, Blood

D. H. Lawrence, Bruce Steele (1985). “Study of Thomas Hardy and Other Essays”, p.167, Cambridge University Press

Literature is a toil and a snare, a curse that bites deep.

Art, Book, Toil

D. H. Lawrence, James T. Boulton (2002). “The Letters of D. H. Lawrence”, p.306, Cambridge University Press

The picture must all come out of the artist's inside, awareness of forms and figures... It is more than memory. It is the image as it lives in the consciousness, alive like a vision, but unknown.

Art, Vision, Alive

"The Sayings of D. H. Lawrence".

It's not art for art's sake, it's art for my sake.

Art, Sake

Art is a form of supremely delicate awareness and atonement — meaning atoneness, the state of being at one with the object.

Art, Oneness, Awareness

"Delphi Complete Works of D.H. Lawrence".

Why has mankind had such a craving to be imposed upon? Why this lust after imposing creeds, imposing deeds, imposing buildings, imposing language, imposing works of art? The thing becomes an imposition and a weariness at last. Give us things that are alive and flexible, which won't last too long and become an obstruction and a weariness. Even Michelangelo becomes at last a lump and a burden and a bore. It is so hard to see past him.

Art, Past, Long

D. H. Lawrence, Simonetta de Filippis (2002). “Sketches of Etruscan Places and Other Italian Essays”, p.33, Cambridge University Press

Art- speech is the only truth. An artist is usually a damned liar but his art, if it be art, will tell you the truth of his day and that is all that matters. Away with eternal truth. The truth lives from day to day, and the marvelous Plato of yesterday is chiefly bosh today.

Art, Plato, Liars

D. H. Lawrence, Ezra Greenspan, Lindeth Vasey (2003). “Studies in Classic American Literature”, p.14, Cambridge University Press

Oh literature, oh the glorious Art, how it preys upon the marrow in our bones. It scoops the stuffing out of us, and chucks us aside. Alas!

Art, Literature, Bones

D. H. Lawrence, James T. Boulton (2002). “The Letters of D. H. Lawrence”, p.417, Cambridge University Press

I always feel as if I stood naked for the fire of Almighty God to go through me--and it's rather an awful feeling. One has to be so terribly religious to be an artist.

God, Religious, Art

D. H. Lawrence, James T. Boulton (2002). “The Letters of D. H. Lawrence”, p.519, Cambridge University Press

What one does in one's art, that is the breath of one's being. What one does in one's life, that is a bagatelle for the outsiders to fuss about.

Art, Doe, Outsiders

D. H. Lawrence (2016). “D. H. Lawrence: The Complete Novels (Centaur Classics)”, p.1296, D. H. Lawrence

Sunday night meant, in the dark, wintry, rainy Midlands ... anywhere where two creatures might stand and squeeze together and spoon.... Spooning was a fine art, whereas kissing and cuddling are calf-processes.

Art, Sunday, Dark

D.H. Lawrence (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)”, p.2093, Delphi Classics

Since obscenity is the truth of our passion today, it is the only stuff of art -- or almost the only stuff.

Art, Passion, Literature

D. H. Lawrence, James T. Boulton (2000). “The Selected Letters of D. H. Lawrence”, p.135, Cambridge University Press

I can't bear art that you can walk round and admire. A book should be either a bandit or a rebel or a man in the crowd.

Art, Book, Reading

D. H. Lawrence, James T. Boulton (2000). “The Selected Letters of D. H. Lawrence”, p.289, Cambridge University Press

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