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There is but one art, to omit.

Robert Louis Stevenson

Art, Editors

Letter to R. A. M. Stevenson, Oct. 1883

Sightseeing is the art of disappointment.

Robert Louis Stevenson

Art, Disappointment, Sightseeing

Robert Louis Stevenson (2006). “The Silverado Squatters: Easyread Large Edition”, p.17, ReadHowYouWant.com

An aspiration is a joy forever, a possession as solid as a landed estate, a fortune which we can never exhaust and which gives us year by year a revenue of pleasurable activity.

Robert Louis Stevenson

Art, Philosophy, Years

Robert Louis Stevenson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Robert Louis Stevenson (Illustrated)”, p.4514, Delphi Classics

I never drew a picture of anything that was before me but always from fancy, a sure sign of the absence of artistic eyesight; and I illustrated my lack of real feeling for art by a very early speech: 'Mama,' said I, 'I have drawed a man. Shall I draw his soul now?

Robert Louis Stevenson

Art, Real, Men

Robert Louis Stevenson, Lloyd Osbourne, Fanny Van de Grift Stevenson, William Ernest Henley (1911). “The Novels and Tales of Robert Louis Stevenson”

There is but one art, to omit! Oh, if I knew how to omit I would ask no other knowledge. A man who knows how to omit would make an Iliad of a daily paper.

Robert Louis Stevenson

Art, Men, Paper

The web, then, or the pattern, a web at once sensuous and logical, an elegant and pregnant texture: that is style, that is the foundation of the art of literature.

Robert Louis Stevenson

Art, Pregnancy, Sensual

'On some technical Elements of Style in Literature' (1885)

A proposition of geometry does not compete with life; and a proposition of geometry is a fair and luminous parallel for a work of art. Both are reasonable, both untrue to the crude fact; both inhere in nature, neither represents it.

Robert Louis Stevenson

Art, Doe, Facts

Robert Louis Stevenson (1999). “The Lantern-Bearers and Other Essays”, p.195, Cooper Square Press

He who has learned to love an art or science has wisely laid up riches against the day of riches.

Robert Louis Stevenson

Art, Riches

Robert Louis Stevenson (2004). “Lay Morals”, p.49, 1st World Publishing

But of works of art little can be said.

Robert Louis Stevenson

Art, Littles, Said

Robert Louis Stevenson (2014). “Memories, Portraits, Essays and Records (Annotated Edition)”, p.429, Jazzybee Verlag

There is indeed one element in human destiny that not blindness itself can controvert: whatever else we are intended to do, we are not intended to succeed; failure is the fate allotted. It is so in every art and study; it is so above all in the continent art of living well.

Robert Louis Stevenson

Art, Fate, Destiny

Robert Louis Stevenson (2015). “The Complete Works of Robert Louis Stevenson: Novels, Short Stories, Poems, Plays, Memoirs, Travel Sketches, Letters and Essays (Illustrated Edition): The Entire Opus of Scottish novelist, poet, essayist and travel writer, containing Treasure Island, Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, Kidnapped, Catriona and A Child's Garden of Verses”, p.4161, e-artnow

Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes about Art

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