7 Quotes about Art by Douglas Adams (Free list)

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Douglas Adams quotes about art

There’s always a moment when you start to fall out of love, whether it’s with a person or an idea or a cause, even if it’s one you only narrate to yourself years after the event: a tiny thing, a wrong word, a false note, which means that things can never be quite the same again.

— Douglas Adams, The Salmon of Doubt

Arthur blinked at the screens and felt he was missing something important. Suddenly he realized what it was.”Is there any tea on this spaceship?” he asked.

— Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy

Far out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the western spiral arm of the Galaxy lies a small unregarded yellow sun. Orbiting this at a distance of roughly ninety-two million miles is an utterly insignificant little blue green planet whose ape-descended life forms are so amazingly primitive that they still think digital watches are a pretty neat idea.

— Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy

But the plans were on display…”“On display? I eventually had to go down to the cellar to find them.”“That’s the display department.”“With a flashlight.”“Ah, well, the lights had probably gone.”“So had the stairs.”“But look, you found the notice, didn’t you?”“Yes, ” said Arthur, “yes I did. It was on display in the bottom of a locked filing cabinet stuck in a disused lavatory with a sign on the door saying ‘Beware of the Leopard.

— Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy

ART: None. The function of art is to hold the mirror up to nature, and there simply isn’t a mirror big enough—see point one.

— Douglas Adams, The Restaurant at the End of the Universe

Time is the worst place, so to speak, to get lost in, as Arthur Dent could testify, having been lost in both time and space a good deal. At least being lost in space kept you busy.

— Douglas Adams, Life, the Universe and Everything

I’m afraid you cannot leave, ‘ said Zarniwoop, ‘you are entwined in the Improbability Field. You cannot escape.’ He smiled the smile that Zaphod had wanted to hit and this time Zaphod hit it.

— Douglas Adams

Arthur felt happy. He was terribly pleased that the day was for once working out so much according to plan. Only twenty minutes ago he had decided he would go mad, and now here he was already chasing a Chesterfield sofa across the fields of prehistoric Earth.

— Douglas Adams, Life, the Universe and Everything