Quotessence
Home / Quotes / Quote by Osbert Sitwell

Quote by Osbert Sitwell

Work

Left Hand, Right Hand!: An Autobiography

This book is an autobiographical work that delves into the author's life story, offering insights into their personal journey and experiences. more

Author

Osbert Sitwell
Osbert Sitwell

Osbert Sitwell was a British writer born on December 6, 1892, and died on May 4, 1969. He was a member of the Sitwell family, known for his unique literary style and critical works. more

You May Also Like

“Do whatever you please, follow your own star; be original if you want to be and don’t if you don’t want to be. Just be natural and gay and light-hearted and pretty and simple and overflowing and general and baroque and bare and austere and stylised and wild and daring and conservative, and learn and learn and learn. Open your mind to every form of beauty.”

IfsWantMindLightFormStarsNaturalSimplePleaseGayOriginalsConservativeDaringHeartedBaroqueLight Hearted
Author:Constance Spry
Create image

“One arranges flowers as the spirit moves you; to obey some inner prompting to put this colour with that, to have brilliance here, line there, a sense of opulence in this place or sparseness in that; to suit your surroundings, your mood, the weather, the occasion. In a word, to do as you please, just as, if you could, you might paint a picture.”

IfsMightMovingSpiritLinesFlowerPleasePaintMoodWeatherSuitsOccasionsColourSurroundingsBrillianceOpulence
Book:Constance Spry's Garden Notebook
Create image

“We know only what we do, what we make, what we construct; and all that we make, all that we construct, are realities. I call them images, not in Plato's sense (namely that they are only reflections of reality), but I hold that these images are the reality itself and that there is no reality beyond this reality except when in our creative process we change the images: then we have created new realities.”

KnowsRealityProcessCreativeReflectionCreative ProcessPlatoConstructsPlato S
Author:Naum Gabo
Create image