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The art of the quoter is to know when to stop.

The art of the quoter is to know when to stop.

Robertson Davies
Art, Knows
Robertson Davies (1992). “The Cornish Trilogy”, Penguin Group USA

Art is wine and experience is the brandy we distill from it.

Robertson Davies
Art, Wine, Alcohol

The clerisy are those who seek, and find, delight and enlargement of life in books. The clerisy are those for whom reading is a personal art.

Robertson Davies
Art, Book, Reading

All art is holy. Not that it is all long-faced and miserable; it can be wild and wooly. But if it transforms you, it is art. And it is holy.

Robertson Davies
Art, Long, Religion

Imagination is a good horse to carry you over the ground - not a flying carpet to set you free from probability.

Robertson Davies
Art, Horse, Imagination

The division between art and deviousness and crime is sometimes as thin as a cigarette paper.

Robertson Davies
Art, Division, Paper

The truth is that art does not teach; it makes you feel, and any teaching that may arise from the feeling is an extra, and must not be stressed too much. In the modern world, and in Canada as much as anywhere, we are obsessed with the notion that to think is the highest achievement of mankind, but we neglect the fact that thought untouched by feeling is thin, delusive, treacherous stuff.

Robertson Davies
Art, Teaching, Thinking
Robertson Davies (1993). “Fortune, My Foe and Eros at Breakfast”, p.8, Dundurn

The drama may be called that part of theatrical art which lends itself most readily to intellectual discussion: what is left is theater.

Robertson Davies
Art, Drama, Intellectual
Robertson Davies (1961). “The Personal Art: Reading to Good Purpose”, London : Secker & Warburg

Literary critics, however, frequently suffer from a curious belief that every author longs to extend the boundaries of literary art, wants to explore new dimensions of the human spirit, and if he doesn't, he should be ashamed of himself.

Robertson Davies
Art, Suffering, Want
"Somerset Maugham". 1982.

It is those pent-up, craving children who make all the wars and all the horrors and all the art and all the beauty and discovery in life, because they are trying to achieve what lay beyond their grasp before they were five years old.

Robertson Davies
Art, Children, War
Robertson Davies (1992). “The Cornish Trilogy”, Penguin Group USA

Art is always at peril in universities, where there are so many people, young and old, who love art less than argument, and dote upon a text that provides the nutritious pemmican on which scholars love to chew.

Robertson Davies
Art, People, Argument
Robertson Davies (1996). “The Cunning Man”, Penguin Group USA

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