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What did David Herbert Lawrence say about Art?

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  • The business of art is to reveal the relation between man and his environment.
  • Design in art, is a recognition of the relation between various things, various elements in the creative flux. You can't invent a design. You recognize it, in the fourth dimension. That is, with your blood and your bones, as well as with your eyes.
  • Oh literature, oh the glorious Art, how it preys upon the marrow in our bones. It scoops the stuffing out of us, and chucks us aside. Alas!

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Here are the top most famous quotes about Art by David Herbert Lawrence.

  • The business of art is to reveal the relation between man and his environment.
  • Design in art, is a recognition of the relation between various things, various elements in the creative flux. You can't invent a design. You recognize it, in the fourth dimension. That is, with your blood and your bones, as well as with your eyes.
  • Oh literature, oh the glorious Art, how it preys upon the marrow in our bones. It scoops the stuffing out of us, and chucks us aside. Alas!
  • I can't bear art that you can walk round and admire. A book should be either a bandit or a rebel or a man in the crowd.
  • Since obscenity is the truth of our passion today, it is the only stuff of art - or almost the only stuff.
  • The essential function of art is moral. But a passionate, implicit morality, not didactic. A morality which changes the blood, rather than the mind.