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Robertson Davies was a Canadian novelist known for his wit and humor. His works often set in the Canadian society, exploring the relationship between individuals and society. Davies' works include the 'Amos Fortune' series and the 'Crown of the North' series, which are highly appreciated by readers.

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Famous Robertson Davies Quotes

“Imagination is a good horse to carry you over the ground - not a flying carpet to set you free from probability.”

Art Imagination Horse Flying Probability Carpet Good Horse

Author:Robertson Davies

“All art is holy. Not that it is all long-faced and miserable; it can be wild and wooly. But if it transforms you, it is art. And it is holy.”

Ifs Long Art Religion Holy Art Is Miserable

Author:Robertson Davies

“Art is always at peril in universities, where there are so many people, young and old, who love art less than argument, and dote upon a text that provides the nutritious pemmican on which scholars love to chew.”

People Art Young Art Is Argument University Scholar Peril Young And Old

Book:The Cunning Man

Source: The Cunning Man

“The truth is that art does not teach; it makes you feel, and any teaching that may arise from the feeling is an extra, and must not be stressed too much. In the modern world, and in Canada as much as anywhere, we are obsessed with the notion that to think is the highest achievement of mankind, but we neglect the fact that thought untouched by feeling is thin, delusive, treacherous stuff.”

Source: Fortune, My Foe and Eros at Breakfast

“The art of the quoter is to know when to stop.”

Book:The Cornish Trilogy

Source: The Cornish Trilogy

“The clerisy are those who seek, and find, delight and enlargement of life in books. The clerisy are those for whom reading is a personal art.”

Art Book Reading Delight Enlargement

Author:Robertson Davies

“The division between art and deviousness and crime is sometimes as thin as a cigarette paper.”

Art Sometimes Crime Paper Division Cigarette Deviousness

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“It is those pent-up, craving children who make all the wars and all the horrors and all the art and all the beauty and discovery in life, because they are trying to achieve what lay beyond their grasp before they were five years old.”

Trying Years Children Art War Five Achieve Horror Discovery Lays Five Years Craving Five Year Olds Discovery In Life

Book:The Cornish Trilogy

Source: The Cornish Trilogy

“The drama may be called that part of theatrical art which lends itself most readily to intellectual discussion: what is left is theater.”

May Art Left Drama Intellectual Theater Theatre Discussion Theatrical

Book:The Personal Art: Reading to Good Purpose

Source: The Personal Art: Reading to Good Purpose

“Literary critics, however, frequently suffer from a curious belief that every author longs to extend the boundaries of literary art, wants to explore new dimensions of the human spirit, and if he doesn't, he should be ashamed of himself.”

Ifs Want Should Humans Art Spirit Suffering Belief Critics Boundaries Curious Dimensions Ashamed Human Spirit Belief In Self Literary Art

Author:Robertson Davies

“Art is wine and experience is the brandy we distill from it.”

Art Art Is Wine Alcohol Brandy

Author:Robertson Davies

About the Author

Born: August 28, 1913
Died: December 2, 1995
Known for: Novelist
Quotes: 258

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