704 Quotes About Iris-murdoch

That art gives charm to terrible things is perhaps its glory, perhaps its curse. Art is a doom.

You're such an agonizer, Bradley. You romanticize art. You're a masochist about it, you want to suffer, you want to feel that your inability to create is continuously significant.

Give yourself to these great works of art. They suffice for a lifetime.

Art is not cosy and it is not mocked. Art tells the only truth that ultimately matters. It is the light by which human things can be mended. And after art there is, let me assure you all, nothing.

All art deals with the absurd and aims at the simple. Good art speaks truth, indeed is truth, perhaps the only truth.

Only art explains, and that cannot itself be explained.

True politics is simply the drying of tears and the endless fight for freedom. Without freedom there is no art and no truth. I revere great artists and the men who say no to tyrants.

I think one should pay so much attention to technique, don't you? Like learning to draw before you paint.

So art becomes not communication but mystification.