Simpson’s Contemporary Quotations, compiled by James B. Simpson. 1988.
NUMBER:
7040
AUTHOR:
George Bernard Shaw
QUOTATION:
If you can say a thing with one stroke, unanswerably you have style; if not, you are at best a marchande de plaisir; a decorative littérateur, or a musical confectioner, or a painter of fans with cupids and cocottes. Handel had power.
ATTRIBUTION:
Quoted in International Herald Tribune 5 Dec 81
SUBJECTS:
Communications & the Arts: Literature: Writers & Editors
