Norman Lindsay

About Norman Lindsay

Family

“The moral value of the Image in Art must consist in its power to arouse a conviction of Beauty.If a conviction of Beauty is aroused, all images of Passion and Action allied to it will become vitalized.Vitality in a work of Art thus becomes a communicable element in mind, and so fulfils its function of stimulating vitality in Life.”
— "The Sex Synonym in Art", in Vision (May 1923), p. 22
“In the art of biography, the idolator is just as objectionable as the debunker.”
— Bohemians of the Bulletin (Sydney, 1965), p. viii
“Oh, no, no, no! Couldn't think of it. It's a very dangerous book. Had a very bad influence.”
— On being asked to illustrate the Bible. Quoted by John Hetherington, Australian Painters (Melbourne, 1963), p. 15
“A writer who presents men and women as creatures truncated below the waist is exposed as one who goes about without his trousers saying, 'see, I have had my testicles removed.'”
— Quoted by Caroline Tully, "The Pagan Lindsay", in Green Egg, vol. 32, no. 135 (September-October 2000), p. 27, col. 2
“"Whiskers in the Puddin' is worse than puddin' in the whiskers," shouted the Puddin', standing up in his basin.”
— Second Slice
“Don't you know that nothin' gives a man greater remorse than havin' his face punched, his toes trod on, and eggs rubbed in his hair?”
— Fourth Slice

Quotes via Wikiquote (CC BY-SA), each with its original source.