Vladimir Nabokov on Art
Browse 5 quotations attributed to Vladimir Nabokov, catalogued under art, with dates where available.
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Attributed to Vladimir Nabokov, entry #207024: "Let the credulous and the vulgar continue to believe that all mental woes can be cured by a daily application of old Greek myths to their private parts."
Attributed to Vladimir Nabokov, entry #90122: "I don't belong to any club or group. I don't fish, cook, dance, endorse books, sign books, co-sign declarations, eat oysters, get drunk, go to church, go to analysts, or take part…"
5 Quotes by Vladimir Nabokov on Art
"Let the credulous and the vulgar continue to believe that all mental woes can be cured by a daily application of old Greek myths to their private parts."
"I don't belong to any club or group. I don't fish, cook, dance, endorse books, sign books, co-sign declarations, eat oysters, get drunk, go to church, go to analysts, or take part in demonstrations."
"The good reader is one who has imagination, memory, a dictionary, and some artistic sense—which sense I propose to develop in myself and in others whenever I have the chance ."
"In this crazy mirror of terror and art a pseudo-quotation made up of obscure Shakespeareanisms somehow produces, despite its lack of literal meaning, the blurred diminutive image of the acrobatic performance that so gloriously supplies the bravura ending for the next chapter."
"The rich philistinism emanating from advertisements is due not to their exaggerating the glory of this or that serviceable article but to suggesting that the acme of human happiness is purchasable and that its purchase somehow ennobles the purchaser."