Ian Mcewan Quotes About Art

Quotes about: Art

• Finally he spoke the three simple words that no amount of bad art or bad faith can every quite cheapen. She repeated them, with exactly the same slight emphasis on the second word, as though she were the one to say them first. He had no religious belief, but it was impossible not to think of an invisible presence or witness in the room, and that these words spoken aloud were like signatures on an unseen contract.

  Ian Mcewan

  Religious, Art, Simple

  "Atonement". Book by Ian McEwan. Reviewed in "The Wounds of Love" by Jonathan Yardley, www.washingtonpost.com. March 17, 2002.

• In the first half of the 20th Century, we lived through human disasters on a scale unimaginable. The Holocaust was once suggested would be the end of not only civilization, but art, too.

  Ian Mcewan

  Art, Civilization, Holocaust

• There are ways in which art can have a longer reach than politics.

  Ian Mcewan

  Art, Israel, Way

  "Ian McEwan defends decision to accept Jerusalem prize" by Stephen Bates, www.theguardian.com. January 25, 2011.

• Scientists do stand on the shoulders of giants, just as do writers. Conversely, in the arts we do make discoveries. We do refine our tools. So I am arguing with, or at least playing with, the idea that art never improves.

  Ian Mcewan

  Art, Discovery, Ideas

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