"The Ebony Tower" Quotes
"The Ebony Tower" by John Fowles explores the complex relationships and tensions between an aging artist, his young protégée, and a visiting writer, delving into themes of creativity, power, and morality.
fiction | 304 pages | Published in NaN
Quotes
Art is not the application of a canon of beauty but what the instinct and the brain can conceive beyond any canon. When we love a woman we don't start measuring her limbs.
The artist is the creator of beautiful things.
An artist should create beautiful things, but should put nothing of his own life into them.
Art is the only serious thing in the world. And the artist is the only person who is never serious.
One should either be a work of art or wear a work of art.
Sin is a thing that writes itself across a man's face. It cannot be concealed.
The world is changed because you are made of ivory and gold. The curves of your lips rewrite history.
I can resist anything except temptation.
I am not young enough to know everything.
Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing.
