Quotes:
“Vital and Significant Forms of Art”
Nor is it any part of my thesis to maintain that it [the detective story] is a vital and significant form of art. There are no vital and significant forms of art; there is only art, and precious little of that. The growth of populations has in no way increased the amount; it has merely increased the adeptness with which substitutes can be produced and packaged.
Raymond Chandler, 1945 from the book The Simple Art of Murder
© 1945 Raymond Chandler