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
"Photograph: a picture painted by the sun without instruction in art."
"The capacity to be puzzled is the premise of all creation, be it in art or in science."
"I see my life in terms of music."
"Why poetry, you ask? Because of life, I answer."
"Logic: The art of thinking and reasoning in strict accordance with the limitations and incapacities of the human misunderstanding."
"But since the world, which thou art to strive against, is not without thee, but within thee, it follows, that it is also to be conquered not without, but within thee."
"It is impossible to give a clear account of the world, but art can teach us to reproduce it-just as the world reproduces itself in the course of its eternal gyrations. The primordial sea indefatigably repeats the same words and casts up the same astonished beings on the same sea-shore."
Explore more quotes by Iris Murdoch
"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."
"In almost every marriage there is a selfish and an unselfish partner. A pattern is set up and soon becomes inflexible, of one person always making the demands and one person always giving way."
"Moralistic is not moral. And as for truth - well, it's like brown - it's not in the spectrum. Truth is so generic."
bottom of page