4 Quotes by Elizabeth Bryer

For an unknown thing to have verisimilitude, it had to be different, but in recognisable ways; it had to include some likeness, and yet hold the promise of surpassing the known.

Every performance is a deceit and deceits have their place. I thought back to the painted library, remembered that deceits could even be an artform.

Fascinating things can be learned about the past, no?

Of course, in deciding to manipulate the language of public discussion, they encouraged the unseeing for which some of us have shown such aptitude in times past.