“I don't see why escapist literature should not also be a work of art.”

— P. D. James

Time to be Earnest - a Fragment of Biography

Adopted from Wikiquote. Last update June 3, 2021. History

Help us to complete the source, original and additional information

Do you have more details about the quote "I don't see why escapist literature should not also be a work of art." by P. D. James?

P. D. James photo

P. D. James26

English crime writer 1920–2014

Related quotes

“I think myself I ought to be shot for writing such nonsense…. But it's unquestionably good escapist literature and I think I should rather like it if I were sitting in an air-raid shelter or recovering from flu.”

Georgette Heyer (1902–1974) British historical romance and detective fiction novelist

“You want loud, dumb, skillful, escapist entertainment? Twister works. You want to think? Think twice about seeing it.”

Roger Ebert (1942–2013) American film critic, author, journalist, and TV presenter

Review http://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/twister-1996 of Twister (10 May 1996) <br class="br">Reviews, Two-and-a-half star reviews

“Works of art, in my opinion, are the only objects in the material universe to possess internal order, and that is why, though I don't believe that only art matters, I do believe in Art for Art's sake.”

E.M. Forster (1879–1970) English novelist

“Thinking is hard work, which is why you don't see many people doing it.”

Sue Grafton (1940–2017) American writer

“I saw no reason why you couldn't create a work of pornography that adhered to all the same standards as the best art or literature. The big difference between art and pornography is that art, at its best, makes you feel less alone. You see a painting or read a piece of writing that expresses a thought that you had but didn't express, and you suddenly feel less alone. Pornography, on the other hand, tends to engender feelings of self-disgust, isolation and wretchedness. I wanted to change that.”

Alan Moore (1953) English writer primarily known for his work in comic books

http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books/features/alan-moore-the-reluctant-hero-64407.html

“We should try to return to our youth, to work naively; this is what I see, and it is why I have such success, because our century has tried to return to the primitive. I work as if no art had ever been made, before me, as if I had never learned anything. I am the first man to do sculpture.”

Aristide Maillol (1861–1944) sculptor from France

Source: Conversations with Judith Cladel (1939–1944), pp. 406-407

“I often told the fanatics of realism that there is no such thing as realism in art: it only exists in the mind of the observer. Art is a symbol, a thing conjuring up reality in our mental image. That is why I don't see any contradiction between abstract and figurative art either.”

Antoni Tàpies (1923–2012) Catalan painter, sculptor and art theorist

Source: undated quotes, Tàpies, Werke auf Papier 1943 – 2003,' (2004), p. 25.

“One should either be a work of art, or wear a work of art.”

Oscar Wilde (1854–1900) Irish writer and poet

“Don't start telling me buildings are works of art, because I don't buy it.”

Richard Serra (1939) American sculptor

Charlie Rose interview (2001)

“So I wonder a woman, the Mistress of Hearts,
Should ascent to aspire to be Master of Arts;
A Ministering Angel in Woman we see,
And an Angel need cover no other Degree.
—O why should a Woman not get a Degree?”

Charles Neaves (1800–1876) Scottish theologian, jurist and writer

"O why should a Woman not get a Degree?", pulished in Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1869), p. 227.

Related topics