Laura Riding Art Quotations

Because most people are not sufficiently employed in themselves, they run about loose, hungering for employment, and satisfy themselves in various supererogatory occupations. The easiest of these occupations, which have all to do with making things already made, is the making of people: it is called the art of friendship.

To a poet the mere making of a poem can seem to solve the problem of truth, but only a problem of art is solved in poetry.

Art indeed is a term referring to the social source and to the social utility of creative acts.

To a poet the mere making of a poem can seem to solve the problem of truth…but only a problem of art is solved in poetry.

Emile Saint-Blague had been a lively, versatile painter in his youth, but he had abused his energy by painting too many pictures; so that in what might have been the ripe period of his art he had nothing left but ideas. A man who has nothing left but ideas may be of great service to his friends, but he is of no use at all to himself. Emile was certainly an inspiration to his friends.

Ideas are the old-age of art. Artists have to keep young; they must not think too much - thought is death, while art is life. Such was Emile's viewpoint.