D. H. Lawrence Quotes:
Ocupation: Novelist
Life: September 11, 1885 - March 2, 1930
Birthday: September 11
Death: March 2
The artist usually sets out -- or used to -- to point a moral and adorn a tale. The tale, however, points the other way, as a rule. Two blankly opposing morals, the artist's and the tale's. Never trust the artist. Trust the tale. The proper functions of a critic is to save the tale from the artist who created it.
source: Studies in Classic American Literature (1923) ch. 1
topic: Artist, Two, Way, Opposing
