Arthur Morrison Quotes

United Kingdom, Writer
November 1, 1863 – December, 4, 1945.

Arthur George Morrison was an English writer and journalist known for his realistic novels and stories about working-class life in London's East End, and for his detective stories, featuring the detective Martin Hewitt. He also collected Japanese art and published several works on the subject. He left a large collection of paintings and other works of art to the British Museum after his death in 1945. Morrison's best known work of fiction is his novel A Child of the Jago (1896).

Also known as Journalist

Out in the Pool certain other boats caught the eye... each carried a bright fire amidships, in a brazier, beside a man, two small barrels of beer, and a very large handbell. The men were purlmen, Grandfather Nat told me, selling hot beer in the cold mornings - to the men on the colliers, or on any other craft thereabout.

Arthur Morrison
- Eye
- Beer
- Craft
The piteous demand that the artist should be shut up in a flower-garden, and forbidden to peep through the hedge into the world.

Arthur Morrison
- Artist
- Demand
- Shut Up

But in the end the truth prevails, if it be well set forth; and the schoolmen, groaning in their infinite labour, wearily write another prescription, admit another precedent, and make another pigeon-hole.

Arthur Morrison
- Truth
- Set
- Prevails
They firmly believe it to be the sole function of art to minister to their personal comfort — as upholstery does.

Arthur Morrison
- Art
- Comfort
- Minister
It is the artist’s privilege to seek his material where he pleases, and it is no man’s privilege to say him nay.

Arthur Morrison
- Artist
- Privilege
- Seek