Lawrence Durrell Quotes about Art

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For us artists there waits the joyous compromise through art with all that wounded or defeated us in daily life; in this way, not to evade destiny, as the ordinary people try to do, but to fulfil it in its true

For us artists there waits the joyous compromise through art with all that wounded or defeated us in daily life; in this way, not to evade destiny, as the ordinary people try to do, but to fulfil it in its true potential - the imagination.

Lawrence Durrell

Art, Destiny, People

Lawrence Durrell (2012). “The Alexandria Quartet: Justine, Balthazar, Mountolive, Clea”, p.14, Faber & Faber

Art like life is an open secret.

Lawrence Durrell

Art, Secret, Life Is

Lawrence Durrell (2012). “The Alexandria Quartet: Justine, Balthazar, Mountolive, Clea”, p.361, Faber & Faber

Religion is simply art bastardized out of all recognition.

Lawrence Durrell

Art, Recognition

Lawrence Durrell (2012). “The Alexandria Quartet: Justine, Balthazar, Mountolive, Clea”, p.696, Faber & Faber

The heaviest impact of the work of art is in the guts. Art does not reason. It manhandles you and changes you.

Lawrence Durrell

Art, Impact, Doe

Lawrence Durrell (1952). “Key to modern poetry”

Art—the meaning of the pattern of our common actions in reality. The cloth-of-gold that hides behind the sackcloth of reality, forced out by the pain of human memory.

Lawrence Durrell

Art, Pain, Memories