W. Somerset Maugham Quote

Beauty is something wonderful and strange that the artist fashions out of the chaos of the world in the torment of his soul.


Christmas holiday. Up at the villa. The razor's edge (ed. 1953)


Beauty is something wonderful and strange that the artist fashions out of the chaos of the world in the torment of his soul.

Beauty is something wonderful and strange that the artist fashions out of the chaos of the world in the torment of his soul.

Beauty is something wonderful and strange that the artist fashions out of the chaos of the world in the torment of his soul.

Beauty is something wonderful and strange that the artist fashions out of the chaos of the world in the torment of his soul.