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Roger Fry Quotes

1866–1936 England

Roger Eliot Fry (14 December 1866 – 9 September 1936) was an English painter and art critic.

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A work of art is a work of art, and nothing else, personal considerations count for nothing.

As I understand it, art is one of the chief organs of what, for want of a better word, I must call the spiritual life.

Essay-Art And Socialism The Artist in the Great State ed H G Wells (1912)

In Art we know nothing for certain.

There is no difference between landscapes and other subjects: in general in painting I try to express the emotions that the contemplation of the form produces in me.

My paintings do no more than give an idea of my wanderings in search of a guiding principle in art

I fancy all distinctively poetical language ought to be banned and the poetry come out of the quality of the idea and the intensity or passion with which it is expressed.

Only those who have experienced the elation and despair which comes from the attempt to express their feelings about vision in oil paint will know that it is impossible to speak with complete impartiality about art.

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Roger Fry (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.