Quentin Bell Quotes

A book is so much a part of oneself that in delivering it to the public one feels as if one were pushing one's own child out into the traffic.

Our clothes are too much a part of us for most of us ever to be entirely indifferent to their condition: it is as though the fabric were indeed a natural extension of the body, or even of the soul.

The damnable thing about bad art is that the insincerity which lies at its roots is not perceived by the artist himself.

I certainly do not begin with any meaning. It is as though my hands do all the thinking.