Cyril Connolly
» Arts and Artists » “The artist is a member of the leisured classes who cannot pay for his leisure.”
» Arts and Artists » “The reward of art is not fame or success but intoxication: that is why so many bad artists are unable to give it up.”
» Charm » “All charming people have something to conceal, usually their total dependence on the appreciation of others.”
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» Civilization » “Civilization is an active deposit which is formed by the combustion of the present with the past. Neither in countries without a Present nor in those without a Past is it to be encountered. Proust in Venice, Matisse’s birdcages overlooking the flower market at Nice, Gide on the seventeenth-century quais of Toulon, Lorca in Granada, Picasso by Saint-Germain-des-Pr
