1. „…like all the Modernists, she saw art as the only remaining avenue to truth, meaning, value, and transcendence in the otherwise bankrupt twentieth century.” Marianne Dekoven, Modernism and Gender,

2. „The first major showing of modern art in London was the exhibition „Manet and the Post-Impressionists” at the Grafton Galleries in 1910…the press and public found this show shocking, even though it was, in fact, an historical survey of painting done in Paris about a quarter of a century before. (It focused mainly on Gauguin, Van Gogh, and Cézanne…) The stunning impact of the first postimpressionist show marks the beginning of the British Modernist movement; it was what Virginia Woolf had in mind when she wrote that „In or about December 1910 human character changed.” Glen Macleod, Modernism and the visual arts,

4. „Virginia Woolf’s essay „The Cinema” (1926) does not seem to tell us a lot about the movies. She mentions only one film by name…yet with characteristic shrewdness and indirection Woolf manages to evoke an essential feature of the cinema, an abstract, nonmimetic expressive possibility…
For instance, at a performance of Dr. Caligari the other day a shadow shaped like a tadpole suddenly appeared at one corner of the screen. It swelled to an immense size, quivered, bulged, and sank back again into nonentity. For a moment it seemed to embody some monstrous diseased imagination of the lunatic’s brain. For a moment it seemed as if thought could be conveyed by shape more effectively than by words. The monstrous quivering tadpole seemed to be fear itself, and not the statement „I am afraid.” Michael Wood, Modernism and film,

5. „The whole structure, it is obvious, thinking back on any famous novel, is one of infinite complexity…the wonder is that any book so composed holds together for more than a year or two…what holds them together in these rare instances of survival…is something that one calls integrity….what one means by integrity, in the case of the novelist, is the conviction that he gives one that this is the truth…one holds every phrase, every scene to the light as one reads—for Nature seems, very oddly, to have provided us with an inner light by which to judge of the novelist’s integrity or disintegrity. Or perhaps it is rather that Nature, in her most irrational mood, has traced in invisible ink on the walls of the mind a premonition which these great artists confirm; a sketch which only needs to be held to the fire of genius to become visible. When one so exposes it and sees it come to life one exclaims in rapture, But this is what I have always felt and known and desired!” A room of one’s own, 72

6. „’I’ is only a convenient term for somebody who has no real being
„’I’ is only a convenient term for somebody who has no real being. Lies will flow from my lips, but there may perhaps be some truth mixed up with them; it is for you to seek out this truth and to decide whether any part of it is worth keeping.” A room of one’s own, 5

7. „Why, if it was an illusion, not praise the catastrophe, whatever it was, that destroyed illusion and put truth in its place? For truth…those dots mark the spot where, in search of truth, I missed the turning up to Fernham. Yes indeed, which was truth and which was illusion, I asked myself.” A room of one’s own, 15 (What are some of the truths and illusions in Mrs. Dalloway and how are they communicated?)—page 57, 69

11. „Yet it is in our idleness, in our dreams, that the submerged truth sometimes comes to the top.” A room of one’s own, 31 (angry professor)