James Thurber Quotes on Art
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He knows all about art, but he doesn't know what he likes.
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A drawing is always dragged down to the level of its caption.
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When all things are equal, translucence in writing is more effective than transparency, just as glow is more revealing than glare.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Unless artists can remember what it was to be a little boy, they are only half complete as artist and as man.