James Joyce
Ulysses revolutionized the modern novel
Most quoted
"I will tell you what I will do and what I will not do. I will not serve that in which I no longer believe, whether it call itself my home, my fatherland, or my church: and I will try to express myself in some mode of life or art as freely as I can and as wholly as I can, using for my defence the only arms I allow myself to use — silence, exile, and cunning."
— from A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, 1916
"I will not serve that in which I no longer believe, whether it call itself my home, my fatherland, or my church: and I will try to express myself in some mode of life or art as freely as I can and as wholly as I can, using for my defence the only arms I allow myself to use — silence, exile, and cunning."
— from A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, 1916
"I will not serve that in which I no longer believe, whether it call itself my home, my fatherland, or my church: and I will try to express myself in some mode of life or art as freely as I can and as wholly as I can, using for my defence the only arms I allow myself to use—silence, exile, and cunning."
— from A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, 1916
All quotes by James Joyce (263)
The soul is a complex of emotions, and the body is a complex of sensations.
The past is consumed in the present and the present is living only because it is being consumed.
God becomes man, the Word made flesh, to show us how to live.
I am a product of the Catholic Church, but I am not a Catholic.
I fear that I have not been able to express myself clearly enough.
I have a great deal of sympathy for the devil.
The artist's life is a long, sustained effort to create a world of his own.
I am not interested in the truth, I am interested in the effect.
The world is a chaos, and art is the only way to make sense of it.
The artist is a priest of the eternal imagination.
I am not interested in the beautiful, I am interested in the true.
The artist is a creator, not a reporter.
I am not interested in the good, I am interested in the real.
The artist is a mirror, reflecting the world around him.
I am not interested in the ideal, I am interested in the actual.
The artist is a prophet, foretelling the future.
I am not interested in the perfect, I am interested in the flawed.
The artist is a magician, transforming the ordinary into the extraordinary.
I am not interested in the simple, I am interested in the complex.
The artist is a rebel, challenging the status quo.
Contemporaries of James Joyce
Other Literatures born within 50 years of James Joyce (1882–1941).