Tom Stoppard on Art
Browse 4 quotations attributed to Tom Stoppard, catalogued under art, with dates where available.
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Attributed to Tom Stoppard, entry #91868: "The Church's idea of the good and the beautiful excludes sexual aberration, apart from chastity, I suppose because it's the rarest"
Attributed to Tom Stoppard, entry #93382: "Guppy, Shusha . "Tom Stoppard, The Art of Theater No. 7", Paris Review interview"
4 Quotes by Tom Stoppard on Art
"The Church's idea of the good and the beautiful excludes sexual aberration, apart from chastity, I suppose because it's the rarest"
"Guppy, Shusha . "Tom Stoppard, The Art of Theater No. 7", Paris Review interview"
"Donner: Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art."
"This thing here, which looks like a wooden club, is actually several pieces of particular wood cunningly put together in a certain way so that the whole thing is sprung, like a dance floor. It's for hitting cricket balls with. If you get it right, the cricket ball will travel two hundred yards in four seconds, and all you've done is give it a knock like knocking the top off a bottle of stout, and it makes a noise like a trout taking a fly. What we're trying to do is to write cricket bats, so that when we throw up an idea and give it a little knock, it might...travel."