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My books and other works are my legacy, and it's a great comfort to know that mine is a legacy of pleasure for other people. — Colleen McCullough

For those who are going to learn from books, learning the art of reading would seem to be indispensable. — Robert M. Hutchins

Two forces are succesfully influencing the education of a cultivated man: art and science. Both are united in the book. — Maxim Gorky

The art of medicine cannot be inherited, nor can it be copied from books — Paracelsus

The shaping of taste is essentially the science of merchandising, whether of detergents or cars or books or objects of fine and decorative art. — Russell Lynes

We sell books, other people sell shoes. What's the difference? Publishing isn't the highest art. — Michael Korda

In fact, every day I'll read a chapter of some art book. I don't know why. It's just a habit. — Sylvester Stallone

I have yet to meet an English teacher who assigned a book to damage a kid. — Pat Conroy

Like the perfect collision of oils on a canvas.
She was a walking piece of art. Words and all. — Candace Knoebel

The most important thing about writing a book is having book parties. — Art Buchwald

Book marketing should be a planned process, an art if you will. — Heather Hart

The noise distorts the truth but we can break through, we need to base our foundation upon the Rock. — Eric Samuel Timm

If I rewind back to that period, I was 8 in 1977 when 'Star Wars' was in theaters. I saved up money, or my parents got me the 'Art of Star Wars' book. — Tony DiTerlizzi

Character, that subtle art, disappeared among them during those days and nights, existed only in a book or on a painted wall. — Michael Ondaatje

There are only three forms of high art: the symphony, the illustrated children's book and the board game. — Brian K. Vaughan

No book is ever perfect
No piece of art is ever perfect
No meal I cook is ever perfect
But at some point we have to eat ... — Tasha Turner

I learned to read when I was three, so I skipped right over picture books and didn't learn to appreciate art in books until much later. — Mitali Perkins

Without art; without paintings, books, sculpture and music, the human soul would be quite impenetrable, don't you think? — Jonathan Hull

I read a book called The Art of Loving. A lot of things seemed clear while I was reading it but afterwards I went back to being more or less the same. — Alice Munro

An art book is a museum without walls. — Andre Malraux

Art consists in making others feel what we feel. — Fernando Pessoa

I enjoy the art, and I enjoy drawing. I think my printing to this day looks like the printing right out of a comic book. — Nathan Fillion

Yet any time I opened up a book of medieval art, or walked into the Renaissance galleries in a museum, I was confronted with Mary. — Holly Ordway

When I was a kid, a book I read advised young artist to be themselves. That decided it for me. I was a corny kind of guy, so I went in for corn. — Walt Disney

Great nations write their autobiographies in three manuscripts - the book of their deeds, the book of their words and the book of their art. — John Ruskin

If a book comes from the heart, it will contrive to reach other hearts; all art and author-craft are of small amount to that. — Thomas Carlyle

A work that intends to be art must first be entertaining. — Katherine Paterson

One of the reasons you can't learn everything you need to know about leadership from a seminar or a book is that leadership is, ultimately, an art. — Mark Rutland

I wanted to create something that people could relate to without having read a book about it beforehand. — Cindy Sherman

Essential characteristic of the really great novelist: a Christ-like, all-embracing compassion. — Arnold Bennett

Publishing is a business and writing is an art. The two have to be crammed together despite the clearly different motivations behind them. — Michelle M. Pillow

Basically the message is: Steal It! Art, music, culture, the odd book and the slab of cheese ... the new will be built upon the ruins of the old. — Buenaventura Durruti

What someone calls my books is irrelevant to me. I consider them works of art and rules and categories and labels mean nothing. — James Frey

Whatever poetry that was in me was coming out in the form of constructing art books! — Stephen Vincent Benet

The art of reading is in great part that of acquiring a better understanding of life from one's encounter with it in a book. — Andre Maurois

You can't enjoy art or books in a hurry. — E.A. Bucchianeri

Great children's books are wisdom dipped in words and art. — Peter H. Reynolds

All great movies have one thing in common: every frame of every scene could stand alone as a work of art. Why should it be different in a book? — Sean Hinn

Homeliness is almost as great a merit in a book as in a house, if the reader would abide there. It is next to beauty, and a very high art. — Henry David Thoreau

Wait a second, is a snooty book critic actually admitting to judging books by their covers? — Larry Correia

Anyone who reads a book with a sense of obligation does not understand the art of reading. — Lin Yutang

If we expose kids to books and art, nothing but good can come from it. — Kevin Henkes

I'm a big illustration and comic book fan. In my eyes, comic books and illustration are the same kind of art forms. — Mika.

I get my inspiration from books, pictures, art. I might find a vintage scarf and say, "I think this should be our color palette." — Jessica Simpson

Keep in mind that books, like art museums, are not always geared to the desires of the reader. — Tyler Cowen

Some of the greatest masterpieces of art are created against the odds of reality.

from the book: stuff i think about — Sondra Faye

The works of the great artists are silent books of eternal truths. — Stefan Zweig

As I read you I fell in love with the holes between your words and I loved you most on the days you could not love yourself. — Jenim Dibie

I owe it all to art books, chocolate and young men. — Beatrice Wood

I've always thought of the book as a visual art form, and it should represent a single artistic idea, which it does if you write your own material. — Chris Van Allsburg

Some people get lots of pleasure; From books or from music or art; But boys seem to think it's fantastic; To just have a really good fart. — Giles Andreae

It is significant that one says book lover and music lover and art lover but not record lover or CD lover or, conversely, text lover. — James Gleick

Books work as an art form (and an economic one) because they are primarily the work of an individual. — Seth Godin

A book is a work of art. (Again, — Mortimer J. Adler

I have been an art director, a book designer, a book-jacket designer and an interior designer. — Milton Glaser

I don't think any movie or any book or any work of art can solve the stalemate in the Middle East today. But it's certainly worth a try. — Steven Spielberg

This helpful book on the role of the arts fills a significant gap in the growing literature on holistic faith-based programs. — Ronald J. Sider

People say if you're doing an art project, that's different from a book, but I honestly don't see it. I try and try, and I just don't. — Douglas Coupland

No book is genuinely free from political bias. The opinion that art should have nothing to do with politics is itself a political attitude. — George Orwell

Book-jacket design may become a lost art, like album-cover design, without which late-20th-century iconography would have been pauperized. — James Wolcott

One of the greatest creations of the human mind is the art of reviewing books without having read them. — Georg C. Lichtenberg

There's been million-seller books and million-seller CDs. But there hasn't been, until now, million-seller art. — Thomas Kinkade

A blessing on the printer's art!
Books are the mentors of the heart. — Sarah Josepha Hale

Mainly because not only did Lee not play by the book, Kai Mason had made an art of pissing all over the fucking book. — Kristen Ashley

As for being poisoned by a book, there is no such thing as that. Art has no influence upon action. — Oscar Wilde

We are often unaware of the gradual decline and the erosion in our lives but not unaware of the gnawing feeling it brings. — Eric Samuel Timm

As for the common men apart, Who sweat to keep their common breath, And have no hour for books or art
What dreams have these to hide from death! — Lola Ridge

A picture book is a small door to the enormous world of the visual arts, and they're often the first art a young person sees. — Tomie DePaola

I can't bear art that you can walk round and admire. A book should be either a bandit or a rebel or a man in the crowd. — D.H. Lawrence

I'm always hiding the books in my closet, and my art's always turned upside down in my drawer. — Daniel Clowes

I imagine that no art has ever been learned from books. fly-fishing is no exception. — G. E. M. Skues

You know, I feel like my job is to write a book. Then filmmakers come and they make a movie. And they're two really different art forms. — Ayelet Waldman

Write as an audience member. Write what you want to see, feel and hear. — Carol Hovsepian

I just love comic books. I've always loved comic book art, and I just think it's amazing. — Zayn Malik

And no book, and possibly no painting, when it is finished, is ever exactly like the first dream of it. — Patricia Highsmith

Dance is low on the totem pole of the arts, because you're not left with a painting ... a book that will stay there, a score you can read. — Jerome Robbins

A book is a living breathing piece of art and you are just the person it chose to channel its story. Be humble. — Lori Lesko

I think jazz and comic books are probably the two uniquely American art forms. — Len Wein

...among whom the art of living well and getting the most out of life at a moderate expense has been attained to a very high degree. — Maria Gentile

We are now in want of an art to teach how books are to be read rather than to read them. Such an art is practicable. — Benjamin Disraeli

We need writers who know the difference between the production of a commodity and the practice of an art. — Ursula K. Le Guin

Because you live to love and love to live/ And because of what your heardrum will give/ Now we might love to live and live to love. — Janet Goodfriend

When you save book reports, art projects and put them in a scrapbook, it shows a kid you care and you are taking an interest in their lives. — Nancy O'Dell

The clerisy are those who seek, and find, delight and enlargement of life in books. The clerisy are those for whom reading is a personal art. — Robertson Davies