Clive James Quotes About Art

Quotes about: Art

• First-rate science fiction was, and remains, more interesting than second-rate art.

  Clive James

  Art, Interesting, Firsts

  Clive James (2015). “From the Land of Shadows”, p.77, Pan Macmillan

• As a work of art, it reminds me of a long conversation between two drunks

  Clive James

  Wisdom, Art, Two

• Reading and writing... are exciting. The most exciting things I can think of. And now, as I reflect... I have to say that I've been lucky in that I'm amused by what I do - sufficiently amused.

  Clive James

  Art, Reading, Writing

• Almost 70 years have gone by, and I've still got that feeling when I write... Writing, for me, is still it. It has always been the basis of everything I do. I'm a writer who performs, not a performer who writes. I love the act of writing. It's still a thrill for me.

  Clive James

  Art, Writing, Years

• The provincial intellectual is doomed to arguing at low level... there is still no Australian literary world, not in Sydney, Melbourne, Adelaide. It is some consolation to realise that there is no literary world in Birmingham or Los Angeles either. I have heard there is one in Montreal, but I don't believe it. The literary world is in London and New York, the only cities big enough to sustain magazines which can afford to reject copy.

  Clive James

  Art, New York, Believe

  Clive James (2013). “Snakecharmers In Texas”, p.28, Pan Macmillan

• The literary critic, or the critic of any other specific form of artistic expression, may detach himself from the world for as long as the work of art he is contemplating appears to do the same.

  Clive James

  Art, Expression, Long

  Clive James (1983). “Glued to the box: television criticism from the Observer, 1979-82”, Jonathan Cape

• Writing is a performance art for me. They're very closely aligned, writing and performing. But I'm a writer, not a performer.

  Clive James

  Art, Writing, Performing

  "'I'm dying, I just look remarkably cheerful' says Clive James". "7.30" with Philip Williams, www.abc.net.au. August 19, 2015.

• What is Camille Paglia doing, writing that an actress as gifted as Anne Heche has the mental depth of a pancake? How many pancake brains could do what Heche did with David Mamet's dialogue in Wag the Dog? No doubt Heche has been stuck with a few bad gigs, but Paglia, of all people, must be well aware that being an actress is not the same safe ride as being the tenured university professor of humanities and media studies at the University of the Arts in Philadelphia.

  Clive James

  Dog, Art, Writing

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