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Half of all the great art and literature in existence went unrecognised during the lifetimes of its creators.
— Alastair Reynolds
There are vogues and fashions in jurisprudence as in literature and art and dress.
— Benjamin N. Cardozo
It is unhappily true that much insincere Literature and Art, executed solely with a view to effect, does succeed by deceiving the public.
— George Henry Lewes
All art, literature, and music must be born in your heart's blood. Art is your heart's blood.
— Edvard Munch
I'm into fashion because it contains the mood of the day, of the moment - like music, literature, and art.
— Zaha Hadid
If you can change the way you think in time you will notice a change in your heart and also a change in your life and the way you see things.
— The Prolific Penman
Frieda, you despise English music. You know you do. And English art. And English literature, except Shakespeare, and he's a German.
— E. M. Forster
Literature is art and art is about passion. It's about drive. It's about beauty. How can you slide through a semester of that and not be moved by it?
— Kristen Ashley
Literature is an art, and the essence of all art is mood.
— Salvador De Madariaga
In trying to be perfect,
He perfected the art of anonymity,
Became imperceptible
And arrived nowhere from nowhere. — Dejan Stojanovic
He perfected the art of anonymity,
Became imperceptible
And arrived nowhere from nowhere. — Dejan Stojanovic
Black literature is taught as sociology, as tolerance, not as a serious, rigorous art form.
— Toni Morrison
Alas, if our children lose the crown of life, it will be but a small consolation that they have won the laurels of literature or art.
— Charles Spurgeon
The best kind of writing is that which comes from the authors soul.
— Ndiritu Wahome
Environmental concern is now firmly embedded in public life: in education, medicine and law; in journalism, literature and art.
— Barry Commoner
The rain dripping off the roof is bigger than literature, bigger than art. No word or image can contain it.
— Marty Rubin
Oh literature, oh the glorious Art, how it preys upon the marrow in our bones. It scoops the stuffing out of us, and chucks us aside. Alas!
— D.H. Lawrence
Energy manipulation took place completely in mind,same way believing in telepathy caused telepathic abilities to grow STRONGER.
— Christina Westover
If you want to understand what's most important to a society, don't examine its art or literature, simply look at its biggest buildings.
— Joseph Campbell
Do they care about Literature and Art? That is the most important when you come to think of it. Literature and Art. Most important.
— E. M. Forster
Among the Igbo the art of conversation is regarded very highly, and proverbs are the palm-oil with which words are eaten.
— Chinua Achebe
Literature is invention. Fiction is fiction. To call a story a true story is an insult to both truth and art.
— Vladimir Nabokov
All great art and literature is propaganda.
— George Bernard Shaw
Reading is thinking with someone else's head instead of ones own.
— Arthur Schopenhauer
I'm kind of hooked to the game of art and literature; my heroes are artists and writers.
— Jim Morrison
History is scholarship. It is also art, and it is literature.
— Stephen J. Pyne
Rhetoric takes no real account of the art in literature and morality takes no account of the art in life.
— Joseph Wood Krutch
But if what can exist does exist, is memory invention or is invention memory?
— Jeanette Winterson
The most effective way of destroying art is the canonization of one given form. And one philosophy.
— Yevgeny Zamyatin
True education does not consist merely in the acquiring of a few facts of science, history, literature, or art, but in the development of character.
— David O. McKay
Truth is most beautiful undraped.
— Arthur Schopenhauer
I am fascinated that no one I have read seems to have noticed that the literature on Picasso continually turns grown-up women into girls.
— Siri Hustvedt
Yet the special thing about literature, the major art form of a Western civilization now ending before our very eyes, is not hard to define.
— Michel Houellebecq
Sound unbound by nature becomes bounded by art.
— Dejan Stojanovic
In America, the only truly popular art form is the movies. Most people consider painting a hobby and literature, schoolwork.
— Brad Holland
Critics are the eunuchs of literature. They stand by in envious awe while the whole man and his partner demonstrate the art of living.
— John Steinbeck
I have such an intense pride of sex that the triumphs of women in art, literature, oratory, science, or song rouse my enthusiasm as nothing else can.
— Elizabeth Cady Stanton
The art of letters will come to an end before A.D. 2000. I shall survive as a curiosity.
— Ezra Pound
In literature and art memory is a synonym for invention. It is the life-blood of imagination, which faints and dies when the veins are empty.
— Robert Aris Willmott
While art thrives on the blazing colours of scandal, literature blossoms on the dark soil of tragedy.
— E.A. Bucchianeri
In order to be created, a work of art must first make use of the dark forces of the soul
— Albert Camus
Art and literature are my surrogate religions.
— Peter Shaffer
Heretics are the only [bitter] remedy against the entropy of human thought.
("Literature, Revolution, and Entropy") — Yevgeny Zamyatin
("Literature, Revolution, and Entropy") — Yevgeny Zamyatin
Ome INSIDE is home shining brightly above all homes in physical world.
— Christina Westover
Real poetry is art at its purest sense. It is never a commodity, but a breath of eternity.
— Subhan Zein
To translate knowledge and information into experience: that seems to be the function of literature and art.
— Joseph Campbell
The sole substitute for an experience we have not ourselves lived through is art and literature.
— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
What a tribute this is to art; what a misfortune this is for history.
(In reference to Shakespeare's 'Richard III') — Paul Murray Kendall
(In reference to Shakespeare's 'Richard III') — Paul Murray Kendall
No one writes anything worth writing, unless he writes entirely for the sake of his subject.
— Arthur Schopenhauer
Flying is not only the art of the birds, but it is also the art of the artists!
— Mehmet Murat Ildan
I probably have a 20,000-word vocabulary. I'll match my wits with anyone on literature, science and the arts.
— Mike Tyson
Literature, art, science, and religion degenerate when polemical struggle supplants the independent creation of ideas.
— Semen Frank
I don't think that any 'ism' is higher than literature or art. So I'm a formalist. I greatly honor and respect the form of a work.
— Joyce Carol Oates
We will always have more to discover, more to invent, more to understand and that's much closer to art and literature than any science.
— Daniel Tammet
I think it is important to reach people through arts and literature, because then you establish a connection that's not an instant crisis.
— Edwidge Danticat
Every page should explode, either because of its staggering absurdity, the enthusiasm of its principles, or its typography.
— Tristan Tzara
Being a systematic theologian allows me to indulge all my interests - in literature, film, art, music - by relating them all to God.
— Kevin Vanhoozer
Reagan's failure to become a truly great movie star has been ascribed to project menace, sexuality, or even moral ambiguity.
— Scott Farris
Literature is the art of discovering something extraordinary about ordinary people, and saying with ordinary words something extraordinary.
— Boris Pasternak
Literature is the aesthetic exploitation of language
— Anthony Burgess
In other countries, art and literature are left to a lot of shabby bums living in attics and feeding on booze and spaghetti.
— James Thurber
There can be no freedom in art and literature where the government determines who shall create them.
— Ludwig Von Mises
I think therefore I am. Does that mean 'I feel therefore I'm not'? But only through feeling can I get at thinking.
— Jeanette Winterson
The culture of a civilization is the art and literature through which it rises to consciousness of itself and defines its vision of the world.
— Roger Scruton
The decay of society is praised by artists as the decay of a corpse is praised by worms.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
Literature is painting, architecture, and music.
— Yevgeny Zamyatin
WE ARE the PULSE of the TIMES!
— Carrie White
As one who loves literature, art, music and history, I've been deeply rooted in the Harlem Renaissance for many years.
— Debbie Allen
If you can't focus then how do you expect to make your dreams come true?
— The Prolific Penman
Critics are those who have failed in literature and art.
— Benjamin Disraeli
The cinema occupies an important place in the overall development of art and literature.
— Kim Jong Il
Mine is not an obedient writing. I think that literature as any art has to be irreverent.
— Reinaldo Arenas
Literature decays only as men become more and more corrupt.
— Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
I grew up in an non-athletic family, where my parents were interested in music, in literature, in education and art.
— Bill Walton
In some way, every creative action disturbs the universe.
— E.L. Konigsburg
Literature was intended to be dangerous. Art was meant to be dangerous. Ideas were nothing if they were not dangerous.
— Timothy Findley
If we have no heretics we must invent them, for heresy is essential to health and growth.
— Yevgeny Zamyatin
I was much more interested in literature than I was in art. I just got into art by mistake.
— Peggy Guggenheim