A work of art is not a matter of thinking beautiful thoughts or experiencing tender emotions , but of intelligence, skill, taste, proportion, knowledge, discipline and industry; especially discipline.
EVELYN WAUGHAn artist must be a reactionary. He has to stand out against the tenor of the age and not go flopping along.
More Evelyn Waugh Quotes
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If a thing’s worth doing at all, it’s worth doing well.
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An artist must be a reactionary. He has to stand out against the tenor of the age and not go flopping along.
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Sometimes, I feel the past and the future pressing so hard on either side that there’s no room for the present at all.
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My children weary me. I can only see them as defective adults: feckless, destructive, frivolous, sensual, humorless.
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To understand all is to forgive all.
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Once you start changing a name, you see, there’s no reason ever to stop. One always hears one that sounds better.
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Where can we hide in fair weather, we orphans of the storm?
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Words should be an intense pleasure just as leather should be to a shoemaker.
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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.
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Perhaps host and guest is really the happiest relation for father and son.
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He had no strength for any other war than his own solitary struggle to keep alive.
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When we argue for our limitations, we get to keep them.
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Your actions, and your action alone, determines your worth.
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Words have basic inalienable meanings, departure from which is either conscious metaphor or inexcusable vulgarity.
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I haven’t been to sleep for over a year. That’s why I go to bed early. One needs more rest if one doesn’t sleep.
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