J. R. R. Tolkien Quotes About Art

Quotes about: Art

• Fantasy is escapist, and that is its glory. If a soldier is imprisioned by the enemy, don't we consider it his duty to escape?. . .If we value the freedom of mind and soul, if we're partisans of liberty, then it's our plain duty to escape, and to take as many people with us as we can!

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Art, Philosophy, People

• Their 'magic' is Art, delivered from many of its human limitations.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Art, Magic, Humans

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2014). “The Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien”, p.146, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

• It is perilous to study too deeply the arts of the Enemy, for good or for ill.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Life, Art, Enemy

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Fellowship of the Ring: Being the First Part of The Lord of the Rings”, p.190, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

• Perilous to us all are the devices of an art deeper than we possess ourselves.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Art, Two Towers, Deeper

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Lord of the Rings: One Volume”, p.409, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

• And its object is Art not power, sub-creation not domination and tyrannous re-forming of Creation.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Art, Creation, Domination

  J. R. R. Tolkien (2011). “The Silmarillion”, p.11, HarperCollins UK

• What really happens is that the story-maker proves a successful 'sub-creator'. He makes a Secondary World which your mind can enter. Inside it, what he relates is 'true': it accords with the laws of that world. You therefore believe it, while you are, as it were, inside. The moment disbelief arises, the spell is broken; the magic, or rather art, has failed. You are then out in the Primary World again, looking at the little abortive Secondary World from outside.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Art, Believe, Successful

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “Tales from the Perilous Realm”, p.351, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

• Fantasy (in this sense) is, I think, not a lower but a higher form of Art, indeed the most nearly pure form, and so (when achieved) the most potent.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Art, Thinking, Fantasy

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “Tales from the Perilous Realm”, p.302, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

• Art is the human process that produces by the way (it is not its only or ultimate object) Secondary Belief.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Art, Way, Belief

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “Tales from the Perilous Realm”, p.306, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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