Art should be appreciated with passion and violence, not with a tepid, depreciating elegance that fears the censoriousness of a common room.


The partial view (ed. London, Heinemann, 1954)

W. Somerset Maugham Quotes

Art should be appreciated with passion and violence, not with a tepid, depreciating elegance that fears the censoriousness of a common room.

Art should be appreciated with passion and violence, not with a tepid, depreciating elegance that fears the censoriousness of a common room.

Art should be appreciated with passion and violence, not with a tepid, depreciating elegance that fears the censoriousness of a common room.

Art should be appreciated with passion and violence, not with a tepid, depreciating elegance that fears the censoriousness of a common room.