Lawrence Durrell
Lawrence Durrell
Lawrence George Durrellwas an expatriate British novelist, poet, dramatist, and travel writer...
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth27 February 1912
travel artist journey
Journeys, like artists, are born and not made. A thousand differing circumstances contribute to them, few of them willed or determined by the will-whatever we may think.
country patriotic artist
Everyone loathes his own country and countrymen if he is any sort of artist.
art emotion audience
The effective in art is what rapes the emotions of your audience without nourishing its values.
art secret life-is
Art like life is an open secret.
real men artist
The artist's work constitutes the only satisfactory relationship he can have with his fellow men since he seeks his real friends among the dead and the unborn.
moving artist paint
I see artists as a great battalion moving through paint, words, music towards cosmological interpretation.
artist littles today
All artists today are expected to cultivate a little fashionable unhappiness.
art pain memories
Art—the meaning of the pattern of our common actions in reality. The cloth-of-gold that hides behind the sackcloth of reality, forced out by the pain of human memory.
artist raw-materials materials
Life, the raw material, is only lived in potentia until the artist deploys it in his work.
art destiny people
For us artists there waits the joyous compromise through art with all that wounded or defeated us in daily life; in this way, not to evade destiny, as the ordinary people try to do, but to fulfil it in its true potential - the imagination.
art impact doe
The heaviest impact of the work of art is in the guts. Art does not reason. It manhandles you and changes you...
behavior children dictates measure responsive
We are the children of our landscape; it dictates behavior and even thought in the measure to which we are responsive to it
cute-love love nervous philip severe
It's unthinkable not to love --you'd have a severe nervous breakdown. Or you'd have to be Philip Larkin.
believe reality confirmation
I don’t believe one reads to escape reality. A person reads to confirm a reality he knows is there, but which he has not experienced.