James Thurber Quotes about Art

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Art – the one achievement of man which has made the long trip up from all fours seem well advised

Art – the one achievement of man which has made the long trip up from all fours seem well advised

James Thurber

Art, Men, Long

1939 In Forum and Century magazine, Jun.

Unless artists can remember what it was to be a little boy, they are only half complete as artist and as man.

James Thurber

Art, Boys, Men

Quoted in Helen Thurber and Edward Weeks (eds) Selected Letters of James Thurber (1981).

He knows all about art, but he doesn't know what he likes.

James Thurber

Art, Likes, Favourite

Cartoon caption, New Yorker, 4 Nov. 1939 See Gelett Burgess 6

The whole of Paris is a vast university of Art, Literature and Music... it is worth anyone's while to dally here for years. Paris is a seminar, a post-graduate course in everything.

James Thurber

Art, Years, Paris

James Thurber, Harrison Kinney, Rosemary A. Thurber (2002). “The Thurber letters: the wit, wisdom, and surprising life of James Thurber”, Simon and Schuster