A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man Quotes

“The object of the artist is the creation of the beautiful. What the beautiful is is another question.”

― James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

topic:art

“Art . . . is the human disposition of sensible or intelligible matter for an esthetic end.”

― James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

topic:art

“There is an art in lighting a fire. We have the liberal arts and we have the useful arts. This is one of the useful arts.”

― James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

topic:art

“Pity is the feeling which arrests the mind in the presence of whatsoever is grave and constant in human sufferings and unites it with the human sufferer. Terror is the feeling which arrests the mind in the presence of whatsoever is grave and...”

― James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

topic:feelings

“His eyes were dimmed with tears and, looking humbly up to heaven, he wept for the innocence he had lost.”

― James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

topic:heaven