Quote

For the essential thing about the work of art is that it is work, and very hard work too.

Joyce Cary

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Joyce Cary
Age: 68 †
Born: 1888
Born: December 7
Died: 1957
Died: March 29
Novelist
Writer
Derry
Northern Ireland
Joyce Lunel Cary
Arthur Joyce Lunel Cary
Hard
Thing
Work
Essential
Essentials
Art

More quotes by Joyce Cary

Image
A foul-mouthed oaf, a drunken laborer lying in a drain, a beaten wife with blackened eyes and torn clothes, cannot be made romantic to a child who sees how other children suffer from bad-tempered parents, from drunken fathers to termagant mothers.
Joyce Cary
Image
A world in everlasting conflict between the new idea and the old allegiances, new arts and new inventions against the old establishment.
Joyce Cary
Image
A friend of mine tells me that a Beethoven symphony can solve for him a problem of conduct. I've no doubt that it does so simply by giving him a sense of the tragedy and the greatness of human destiny, which makes his personal anxieties seem small, which throws them into a new proportion.
Joyce Cary
Image
A novel should be an experience and convey an emotional truth rather than arguments.
Joyce Cary
Image
God is a character, a real and consistent being, or He is nothing. If God did a miracle He would deny His own nature and the universe would simply blow up, vanish, become nothing.
Joyce Cary
Image
Where can one find a profounder desolation than in the poor child who has lost its mother?
Joyce Cary
Image
Sara could commit adultery at one end and weep for her sins at the other, and enjoy both operations at once.
Joyce Cary
Image
To forgive is wisdom, to forget is genius.
Joyce Cary
Image
No doubt any connoisseur, any collector, some bored old millionaire when he shows off his treasures, is seeking in your praise the resurrection and the life.
Joyce Cary
Image
All art is bad, but modern art is the worst.
Joyce Cary
Image
Reality is a narrow little house which becomes a prison to those who can't get out of it.
Joyce Cary
Image
Of all things I find most unbearable is the injustice of one generation to another.
Joyce Cary
Image
Something you have to make...It's all work, work.
Joyce Cary
Image
Old men when they begin to hear the last trumpet, on the morning breeze, often have a kind of absent-minded smile like people listening. And their smiles are just politeness.
Joyce Cary
Image
Throughout the play everything possible was done to show the virtue, innocence and helplessness of the poor, and the abandoned cruelty, the heartless self-indulgence of the rich.
Joyce Cary
Image
Plantie is a very strong Protestant, that is to say, he's against all churches, especially the Protestant: and he thinks a lot of Buddha, Karma and Confucius. He is also a bit of an anarchist and three or four years ago he took up Einstein and vitamins.
Joyce Cary
Image
Politics is like navigation in a sea without charts, and wise men live the lives of pilgrims.
Joyce Cary
Image
The will is never free - it is always attached to an object, a purpose. It is simply the engine in the car - it can't steer
Joyce Cary
Image
Remember I'm an artist. And you know what that means in a court of law. Next worst to an actress
Joyce Cary
Image
Love doesn't grow on trees like apples in Eden - it's something you have to make. And you must use your imagination too.
Joyce Cary