Anita Brookner - Best Quotes

Life… is not simply a series of exciting new ventures. The future is not always a whole new ball game. There tends to be unfinished business. One trails all sorts of things around with one things that simply won't be got rid of.

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My first love is art and I see a lot of things in an artistic way.

In my world history comes down to language and art. No one cares much about what battles were fought who won them and who lost them – unless there is a painting a play a song or a poem that speaks of the event.

A compromise is the art of dividing a cake in such a way that everyone believes he has the biggest piece.

Wushu is a move in Chinese a physical move. An attack. Wushu is like an art.

Magic becomes art when it has nothing to hide.

Science is spectral analysis. Art is light synthesis.

The idea of avant-garde art is a very suspicious thing to me the idea that poetry is new and it keeps being new the way Chevrolets every year are new.

Any work that aspires however humbly to the condition of art should carry its justification in every line.

When thou art at Rome do as they do at Rome.

Rock isn't art it's the way ordinary people talk.

Tell me thy company and I'll tell thee what thou art.

Book-jacket design may become a lost art like album-cover design without which late-20th-century iconography would have been pauperized.

Author: Anita Brookner

Good women always think it is their fault when someone else is being offensive. Bad women never take the blame for anything.

The essence of romantic love is that wonderful beginning after which sadness and impossibility may become the rule.

Existentialism is about being a saint without God being your own hero without all the sanction and support of religion or society.

Accountability in friendship is the equivalent of love without strategy.

Time misspent in youth is sometimes all the freedom one ever has.

Life… is not simply a series of exciting new ventures. The future is not always a whole new ball game. There tends to be unfinished business. One trails all sorts of things around with one things that simply won't be got rid of.