What did Iris Murdoch mean by: The most potent and sacred command which can be laid upon any artist is the command: wait. Iris Murdoch Novelist · UK Copy
+ We are all prisoner, but the name of our cure is not freedom Author, July 24, 2023January 2, 2025, Iris Murdoch, Cure, Freedom, Imprisonment, 0 Iris Murdoch Novelist · UK
Bereavement is a darkness impenetrable to the imagination of the unbereaved Author, December 23, 2023December 28, 2024, Iris Murdoch, Empathy, Grief, Understanding, 0 Iris Murdoch Novelist · UK
+ The very madness of the scheme protects it. Author, August 25, 2023January 2, 2025, Iris Murdoch, Deception, Risk, Security, 0 Iris Murdoch Novelist · UK
+ The most interesting things are always happening behind one. Author, September 5, 2023January 2, 2025, Iris Murdoch, Discovery, Intrigue, Mystery, 0 Iris Murdoch Novelist · UK
All art is the struggle to be, in a particular sort of way, virtuous. Author, December 23, 2023December 29, 2024, Iris Murdoch, Art, Struggle, Virtue, 0 Iris Murdoch Novelist · UK
Art is the final cunning of the human soul which would rather do anything than face the gods. Author, December 23, 2023December 28, 2024, Iris Murdoch, Avoidance, Creativity, Religion, 0 Iris Murdoch Novelist · UK
… a less than perfect meddling in the spiritual world can breed monsters for other people. Author, December 23, 2023December 28, 2024, Iris Murdoch, Consequences, Ethics, Supernatural, 0 Iris Murdoch Novelist · UK
+ Jealousy is the most dreadfully involuntary of all sins. Author, June 10, 2023January 2, 2025, Iris Murdoch, Involuntary, Jealousy, Sin, 0 Iris Murdoch Novelist · UK
The tax code gives you an enormous advantage if you can find some things you can just sit with. Read explanation Charlie Munger Business person
Make copies, young man, many copies. You can only become a good artist by copying the masters. Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres Painter · France
An original artist is unable to copy. So he has only to copy in order to be original. Jean Cocteau Artist · France
