Art is significant deformity.

- Roger Fry

Bach almost persuades me to be a Christian.

- Roger Fry

No-one who has a real understanding of the art of painting attaches any importance to what we call the subject of a picture - what is represented. To…

- Roger Fry

The painting is always conceived as the linear record of a rhythmic gesture: it is a graph of a dance executed by the hand. Not only the artist's eye…

- Roger Fry

First I have a think, and then I put a line around it.

- Roger Fry

None the less, perhaps, the highest pleasure in art is identical with the highest pleasure inscientific theory. The emotion which accompanies the cle…

- Roger Fry