Top 4 Quotes by John Bayley

The happiest marriages are full of alternative lives, lived in the head, unknown to the partner.

Marriage, Alternatives, Partners

John Bayley (1999). “Iris and the friends: a year of memories”, Gerald Duckworth & Co Ltd

Kitsch of course only comes into existence when we recognize how and why it works.

Kitsch, Existence, Courses

One function of art is to de-kitschify kitsch.

Art, Kitsch, Function

Vermeer's woman reading a letter is as full of latent or subliminal kitsch as Tolstoy's War and Peace.

War, Reading, Vermeer

John Bayley Quotes