…idea of a wise passiveness runs all through the literature of art. You'll find this again and again. For example, the art critic Roger Fry, from whom I learned most of what I... I know about art, always used to speak of this prelude to creativity which…

…idea of a wise passiveness runs all through the literature of art. You'll find this again and again. For example, the art critic Roger Fry, from whom I learned most of what I... I know about art, always used to speak of this prelude to creativity which…

…Bell and Vanessa and Virginia Woolf, Russell I met then and D.H. Lawrence and this was a sort of liberal education to me and Roger Fry was very kind to me and from whom I certainly learned a great deal about art for example. Roger Fry I think remains…

…to me and Roger Fry was very kind to me and from whom I certainly learned a great deal about art for example. Roger Fry I think remains a very good art critic I mean he had extraordinary sensibility and immense knowledge and enthusiasm and was a good,…

…from one to the other, to look at the object analytically and conceptually, and then to look at it in what my old friend Roger Fry used to call a state of alert passivity. which is essentially the way the artist looks at the outside world, so that one…

…from one to the other, to look at the object analytically and conceptually, and then to look at it in what my old friend Roger Fry used to call a state of alert passivity, which is essentially the way the artist looks at the outside world, so that one…

…receptivity. And this is something which all artists, and again all religious people, have understood perfectly well. My old friend Roger Fry, the art critic, had a very good phrase for what Wordsworth calls wise passiveness. He used to speak of alert…

…it's been constantly stressed that the means do not consist in mental activity and discursive reasoning. They consist in what Roger Fry, speaking about art, used to call alert passivity, or in what a modern American mystic, the great teacher of reading…