Jim Ede

Harold Stanley Ede (7 April 1895 – 15 March 1990), also known as 'Jim' Ede, was a British collector of art and friend to artists. Ede studied painting at Newlyn Art School between 1912 and 1914.

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 * It seems to me that art is a great miracle-it is the showing forth of the Holy Spirit transubstantiation. It is to find and proclaim the poetry of life, without which there is no life.
 * Introduction, in Engrave Glass: David Peace, Cambridge 1973.


 * The role of art is to give food for thought,to act as a stimulant,to entice the onlooker to inspect things, people,emotions,from a new point of view.
 * Undated manuscript c 1941. Kettle's Yard archive, Cambridge.


 * There should be a Kettle's Yard in every university.
 * From Introduction to the Handlist 1970