"Never trust the artist. Trust the tale. The proper function of a critic is to save the tale from the artist who created it"

D. H. Lawrence Literature See all quotes by D. H. Lawrence →

React to this quote

More by D. H. Lawrence

See all

“My God, these folks don't know how to love — that's why they love so easily.”

“Of course Celia shits! Who doesn't? And how much worse if she didn't.”

“The dead don't die. They look on and help.”

“The more scholastically educated a man is generally, the more he is an emotional boor.”

“It was in 1915 the old world ended.”

“Men fight for liberty, and win it with hard knocks. Their children, brought up easy, let it slip away again, poor fools. And their grandchildren are once more slaves.”

Resonant Thoughts

"I have always said that you do not see a thing until you look away from it. In other words, an object or a fact in nature has not become itself until it has been projected in the realm of the imaginat…"

— Marsden Hartley

Art1877–1943

#art

"I am an artist who makes walks. A walk defines the form of the land in space and time beyond the scale of sculpture or the fixed image. Some of my walks are formal almost ritualised. I have climbed ar…"

— Richard Long

Entertainment1927–1974

#art

"If you're so smart, why ain't you rich?"

— Eudora Welty

Literature1909–2001

#art

"But we cannot enjoy in isolation; we wish to dazzle others with that which we daily snatch from the world of sense, and in return we wish others to show us their trophies. From a reciprocity of conces…"

— Jean Metzinger

Literature1883–1956

#art