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

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
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

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
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