Cyril Connolly
Cyril Connolly
Cyril Vernon Connollywas a literary critic and writer. He was the editor of the influential literary magazine Horizonand wrote Enemies of Promise, which combined literary criticism with an autobiographical exploration of why he failed to become the successful author of fiction that he had aspired to be in his youth...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionJournalist
Date of Birth10 September 1903
art grasped journalism literature
Literature is the art of writing something that will be read twice; journalism what will be grasped at once
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It is closing time in the gardens of the West and from now on an artist will be judged only by the resonance of his solitude or the quality of his despair.
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There is no more somber enemy of good art than the pram in the hall
art reality past
Imagination is nostalgia for the past, the absent it is the liquid solution in which art develops the snapshot of reality.
art enemy atheism
There is no more sombre enemy of good art than the pram in the hall.
art fall dark
The artist one day falls through a hole in the brambles, and from that moment he is following the dark rapids of an underground river which may sometimes flow so near to the surface that the laughing picnic parties are heard above.
artist nostalgia
The artist secretes nostalgia around life.
art blow noses
He [George Orwell] would not blow his nose without moralising on conditions in the handkerchief industry.
beach art genius
The true work of art is the one which the seventh wave of genius throws up the beach where the undertow of time cannot drag it back.
artist imagination today
Today the function of the artist is to bring imagination to science and science to imagination, where they meet, in the myth.
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The artist is a member of the leisured classes who cannot pay for his leisure.
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Literature is the art of writing something that will be read twice; journalism what will be grasped at once.
beautiful art rewards
The reward of art is not fame or success but intoxication.
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Art is an absolute mistress; she will not be coquetted with or slighted; she requires the most entire self-devotion, and she repays with grand triumphs.