top of page
.png){kind=small}
"All art is a struggle to be, in a particular sort of way, virtuous."
Standard
Customized
Exlpore more Art quotes
"Logic: The art of thinking and reasoning in strict accordance with the limitations and incapacities of the human misunderstanding."
"You do not need a boyfriend or a girlfriend to write an emotional poet, because poetry is beyond hooks and holes."
"The basis of art is truth, both in matter and in mode."
"Music heals all forms of misery."
"The man can neither make, nor retain, one moment of time; it all comes to him by pure gift; he might as well regard the sun and moon as his chattels."
"The business of art lies just in this, -- to make that understood and felt which, in the form of an argument, might be incomprehensible and inaccessible."
Explore more quotes by Iris Murdoch
"Literature could be said to be a sort of disciplined technique for arousing certain emotions."
"Perhaps when distant people on other planets pick up some wavelength of ours all they hear is a continuous scream."
"The notion that one will not survive a particular catastrophe is, in general terms, a comfort since it is equivalent to abolishing the catastrophe."
"He was a sociologist; he had got into an intellectual muddle early on in life and never managed to get out."
"Moralistic is not moral. And as for truth - well, it's like brown - it's not in the spectrum. Truth is so generic."
"The absolute yearning of one human body for another particular body and its indifference to substitutes is one of life's major mysteries."
"We shall be better prepared for the future if we see how terrible, how doomed the present is."
"People from a planet without flowers would think we must be mad with joy the whole time to have such things about us."
bottom of page