Literature is a toil and a snare, a curse that bites deep.

More Quotes by D. H. Lawrence

The business of art is to reveal the relation between man and his environment.

Design in art, is a recognition of the relation between various things, various elements in the creative flux. You can't invent a design. You recognize it, in the fourth dimension. That is, with your blood and your bones, as well as with your eyes.

I can't bear art that you can walk round and admire. A book should be either a bandit or a rebel or a man in the crowd.

Sex and beauty are inseparable, like life and consciousness. And the intelligence which goes with sex and beauty, and arises out of sex and beauty, is intuition.

The human soul needs actual beauty more than bread.

Do not allow to slip away from you freedoms the people who came before you won with such hard knocks.