Virginia Woolf on Art
Browse 3 quotations attributed to Virginia Woolf, catalogued under art, with dates where available.
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Attributed to Virginia Woolf, entry #83667: "Mrs Swithin took her knitting from the table. 'Did you feel,' she asked, 'what he said: we act different parts but are the same?'"
Attributed to Virginia Woolf, entry #247175: ""What is this romance?" she mused."Ah, that’s the question. I’ve never come across a definition that satisfied me, though there are some very good ones"—he glanced in the directio…"
3 Quotes by Virginia Woolf on Art
"Mrs Swithin took her knitting from the table. 'Did you feel,' she asked, 'what he said: we act different parts but are the same?'"
""What is this romance?" she mused."Ah, that’s the question. I’ve never come across a definition that satisfied me, though there are some very good ones"—he glanced in the direction of his books."It’s not altogether knowing the other person, perhaps—it’s ignorance," she hazarded."Some authorities say it’s a question of distance—romance in literature, that is—""Possibly, in the case of art. But in the case of people it may be—" she hesitated."
"For it needs little skill in psychology to be sure that a highly gifted girl who had tried to use her gift for poetry would have been so thwarted and hindered by other people, so tortured and pulled asunder by her own contrary instincts, that she must have lost her health and sanity to a certainty."