Thornton Wilder Quotes about Art

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Art is not only the desire to tell one's secret; it is the desire to tell it and hide it at the same time.

Art is not only the desire to tell one's secret; it is the desire to tell it and hide it at the same time.

Thornton Wilder

Art, Secret, Desire

Thornton Wilder (2009). “The Bridge of San Luis Rey and Other Novels, 1926-1948”

I regard the theatre as the greatest of all art forms.

Thornton Wilder

Art, Theatre, Acting

[Camila] was quite incapable of establishing any harmony between the claims of her art, of her appetites, or her dreams, and of her crowded daily routine. Each of these was a world in itself.

Thornton Wilder

Dream, Art, Routine

Thornton Wilder (1961). “Twayne's United States Authors Series”

One of the dangers of the American artist is that he finds himself almost exclusively thrown in with persons more or less in the arts. He lives among them, eats among them, quarrels with them, marries them.

Thornton Wilder

Art, Danger, Quarrels

Thornton Wilder, Jackson R. Bryer (1992). “Conversations with Thornton Wilder”, p.66, Univ. Press of Mississippi