7 James Thurber Quotes on Art

James Thurber quotes on art

4. He knows all about art, but he doesn't know what he likes.

41. A drawing is always dragged down to the level of its caption.

49. When all things are equal, translucence in writing is more effective than transparency, just as glow is more revealing than glare.

52. We all know that the theater and every play that comes to Broadway have within themselves, like the human being, the seed of self-destruction and the certainty of death. The thing is to see how long the theater, the play, and the human being can last in spite of themselves.

55. My drawings have been described as pre-intentionalist, meaning that they were finished before the ideas for them had occurred to me. I shall not argue the point.

89. There is something about a poet which leads us to believe that he died, in many cases, as long as 20 years before his birth.

91. Unless artists can remember what it was to be a little boy, they are only half complete as artist and as man.