V. S. Pritchett Quotes about Art

Like many popular best-sellers, he was a very sad and solemn man who took himself too seriously and his art not seriously enough.

Like many popular best-sellers, he was a very sad and solemn man who took himself too seriously and his art not seriously enough.

V. S. Pritchett

Art, Men, Enough

"The Tale Bearers: English and American Writers" by Random House, (p. 25), 1980.

It's all in the art. You get no credit for living.

V. S. Pritchett

Art, Credit

The novel...creates a bemusing effect. The short story, on the other hand wakes the reader up. Not only that, it answers the primitive craving for art, the wit, paradox and beauty of shape, the longing to see a dramatic pattern and significance in our experience.

V. S. Pritchett

Art, Hands, Stories

Among the masked dandies of Edwardian comedy, Max Beerbohm is the most happily armored by a deep and almost innocent love of himself as a work of art.

V. S. Pritchett

Art, Max, Comedy

V.S. Pritchett (2011). “A Man of Letters: Selected Essays”, p.160, Bloomsbury Publishing

The detective novel is the art-for-art's-sake of our yawning Philistinism, the classic example of a specialized form of art removed from contact with the life it pretends to build on.

V. S. Pritchett

Art, Yawning, Example

'New Statesman' 16 June 1951 'Books in General'