3 Mary McCarthy Quotes on Art

Mary McCarthy quotes on art

22. I am putting real plums into an imaginary cake.

28. We all know in our gut that art educates. In other societies, they're aware of the power it has of speaking directly to the masses, teaching them to be better socialists, better citizens. The trouble is that with us it's fallen into the wrong hands. Forget the speculators... The concept of the collector is so rotten by now that it stinks.

37. The theater is the only branch of art much cared for by people of wealth; like canasta, it does away with the bother of talk after dinner.