V. S. Pritchett Art Quotations

It's all in the art. You get no credit for living.

Like many popular best-sellers, he was a very sad and solemn man who took himself too seriously and his art not seriously enough.

The detective novel is the art-for-art's-sake of our yawning Philistinism, the classic example of a specialized form of art removed from contact with the life it pretends to build on.

Among the masked dandies of Edwardian comedy, Max Beerbohm is the most happily armored by a deep and almost innocent love of himself as a work of art.

Detective stories are the art-for-art's sake of yawning Philistinism.

The novel...creates a bemusing effect. The short story, on the other hand wakes the reader up. Not only that, it answers the primitive craving for art, the wit, paradox and beauty of shape, the longing to see a dramatic pattern and significance in our experience.