Source: Black Lamb and Grey Falcon
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Source: The Court and the Castle: Some Treatments of a Recurrent Theme /$Rebecca West
“What is art? It is not decoration. It is the re-living of experience.”
Source: Black Lamb and Grey Falcon
Source: Black lamb and grey falcon: a journey through Yugoslavia
Source: The strange necessity: essays by Rebecca West
Source: The Strange Necessity: Essays and Reviews
“art is at least in part a way of collecting information about the universe.”
Source: The Strange Necessity: Essays and Reviews
Source: The Young Rebecca: Writings of Rebecca West 1911-17
“the law, like art, is always vainly racing to catch up with experience.”
Source: The meaning of treason
Source: The Birds Fall Down
“Any authentic work of art must start an argument between the artist and his audience.”
Source: The Court and the Castle: Some Treatments of a Recurrent Theme /$Rebecca West
“A copy of the universe is not what is required of art; one of the damned things is ample.”
Source: The strange necessity: essays by Rebecca West
Source: Keeping it dark: or, The censor's handbook
“I cannot see that art is anything less than a way of making joys perpetual.”
Source: The Strange Necessity: Essays and Reviews
“Art is not a luxury, but a necessity.”
Source: The Strange Necessity: Essays and Reviews