Evelyn Waugh Quotes About Art

• Un artista debe ser reaccionario. Tiene que oponerse al tenor de la época y no dejarse llevar.

  Evelyn Waugh

  Arte, Edad, Destacar

  "Citas personales/ Biografía". www.imdb.com.

• Don't give your opinions about Art and the Purpose of Life. They are of little interest and, anyway, you can't express them. Don't analyze yourself. Give the relevant facts and let your readers make their own judgments. Stick to your story. It is not the most important subject in history but it is one about which you are uniquely qualified to speak.

  Evelyn Waugh

  Art, Giving, Important

  Evelyn Waugh's review of Stephen Spender "World within World: The Autobiography of Stephen Spender" in "The Tablet", May 5, 1951.

• An artist must be a reactionary. He has to stand out against the tenor [group think] of the age and not go flopping along. By doing this he helps us to question and reassess our past, present and future situations, our assumptions and our options.

  Evelyn Waugh

  Arte, Pasado, Pensamiento

• Charm is the great English blight. It does not exist outside these damp islands. It spots and kills anything it touches. It kills love; it kills art; I greatly fear, my dear Charles, it has killed you.

  Evelyn Waugh

  Art, Islands, Doe

  Evelyn Waugh (1958). "El mundo de Evelyn Waugh"

• Los galeses son la única nación del mundo que no ha producido arte gráfico o plástico, ni arquitectura, ni teatro. Sólo cantan. Cantan y soplan instrumentos de viento de plata chapada.

  Evelyn Waugh

  Art, Drama, Blow

  Evelyn Waugh (1958). "El mundo de Evelyn Waugh"

• There is an Easter sense in which all things are made new in the risen Christ. A tiny gleam of this is reflected in all true art.

  Evelyn Waugh

  Easter, Art, Gleam

  Evelyn Waugh, Mark Amory (1980). “The letters of Evelyn Waugh”, Weidenfeld & Nicolson

• Bien entendido, el estilo no es una decoración seductora añadida a una estructura funcional; es la esencia de una obra de arte. Los elementos necesarios del estilo son la lucidez, la elegancia y la individualidad; estas tres cualidades se combinan para formar un conservante que garantiza la mayor aproximación a la permanencia en el arte fugitivo de las letras.

  Evelyn Waugh

  Arte, Esencia, Seductor

• If every museum in the New World were emptied, if every famous building in the Old World were destroyed and only Venice saved, there would be enough there to fill a full lifetime with delight. Venice, with all its complexity and variety, is in itself the greatest surviving work of art in the world.

  Evelyn Waugh

  Art, Venice, Museums

  Evelyn Waugh (1983). "The Essays, Articles and Reviews of Evelyn Waugh", Methuen

• Una obra de arte no es una cuestión de bellos pensamientos o tiernas emociones, sino de inteligencia, habilidad, gusto, proporción, conocimiento, disciplina e industria; especialmente disciplina.

  Evelyn Waugh

  Bello, Arte, Pensamiento

  Evelyn Waugh (1983). "The Essays, Articles and Reviews of Evelyn Waugh", Methuen

• "We, Seth, Emperor of Azania, Chief of Chiefs of Sakuyu, Lord of Wanda and Tyrant of the Seas, Bachelor of the Arts of Oxford University, being in this the twenty-fourth year of our life, summoned by the wisdom of Almighty God and the unanimous voice of our people to the throne of our ancestors, do hereby proclaim..." Seth paused in his dictation and gazed out across the harbour where in the fresh breeze of early morning the last dhow was setting sail for the open sea. "Rats," he said; "stinking curs. They are all running away."

  Evelyn Waugh

  Running, Art, Morning

  "Black Mischief". Book by Evelyn Waugh, 1932.

• Beerbohm was a genius of the purest kind. He stands at the summit of his art.

  Evelyn Waugh

  Art, Genius, Kind

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