George Moore (novelist): Quotes about art

George Moore (novelist) was Irish novelist, short-story writer, poet, art critic, memoirist and dramatist. Explore interesting quotes on art.
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“Acting is therefore the lowest of the arts, if it is an art at all.”

George Moore (novelist)

Impressions and Opinions (1891): "Mummer-Worship".

Art

“But if you want to be a painter you must go to France — France is the only school of Art.”

George Moore (novelist)

Source: Confessions of a Young Man http://www.gutenberg.org/files/12278/12278-h/12278-h.htm (1886), Ch. 1.

School , Art

“One thing that cannot be denied to the realists: a constant and intense desire to write well, to write artistically. When I think of what they have done in the matter of the use of words, of the myriad verbal effects they have discovered, of the thousand forms of composition they have created, how they have remodelled and refashioned the language in their untiring striving for intensity of expression for the very osmazome of art, I am lost in ultimate wonder and admiration.”

George Moore (novelist)

Source: Confessions of a Young Man http://www.gutenberg.org/files/12278/12278-h/12278-h.htm (1886), Ch. 13.

Art , Thinking

“The hours I spend with you I look upon as sort of a perfumed garden, a dim twilight, and a fountain singing to it… you and you alone make me feel that I am alive… Other men it is said have seen angels, but I have seen thee and thou art enough.”

George Moore (novelist)

Letter to Lady Emerald Cunard, quoted in The Everything Wedding Vows Book : Anything and Everything You Could Possibly Say at the Altar, and then Some. (2001) by Janet Anastasio and Michelle Bevilacqua, p. 97.

Cute , Anniversary , Valentine's Day , For Her