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Young artists must pave their way to Art by drawing pictures for magazine stories that young authors write to pave their way to Literature. — O. Henry

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

All photos speak a thousand words. This one contained a library. — Rivera Sun

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

Take the time to discover how African-Americans have had a great impact on this country. In science, education, literature, art, and politics. — Lynn Swann

Comedy aims at representing men as worse, Tragedy as better than in actual life. — Aristotle.

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

I congratulate you on your success stealing the painting. — Mark Zero

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

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

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

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

How can you be kissing at a time like this? Have you no respect for the dead? — Mark Zero

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

Trying to live up to yourself is the most trying thing. — Ren Garcia

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

I wish to share and pass down some of my generation's traits, and encourage young people to create their own art, music, and literature. — David Amram

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 don't see why escapist literature shouldn't also be a work of art. — P.D. James

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

Henry James hated epilogues and refused to use them in his fiction. He said that life granted us no "epilogues", so why should art or literature? — Dan Simmons

Art and literature are my surrogate religions. — Peter Shaffer

Creativity in any form stimulates creativity in every form, music, arts, literature ... I find inspiration in anything. It's all the same. — Marc Jacobs

Heretics are the only [bitter] remedy against the entropy of human thought.
("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

Since the last decades of the nineteenth century, revolt against the objectified world has determined the character of art and literature. — Paul Tillich

All literature and popular art contain themes that resonate with the audience. — Daniel Lambert

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

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

The narrative of serial art works more like music than like literature. — Sol LeWitt

Publishers are businesses and I don't blame them for that. If they didn't make money by publishing books, there wouldn't be any books. — Johnny Rich

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

And I had just kissed my ex-girlfriend, who had cried, while my current girlfriend was in jail. So far, it had not been my best day. — Mark Zero

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

My mother was a teacher, and when she wanted to show me art and literature and science, she'd take me to museums, parks and free exhibitions. — David Blaine

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

Nature is an outcry, unpolished truth; the art - a euphemism - tamed wilderness. — Dejan Stojanovic

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

I grow weary of the love
That lasts for a night
When it should be there
The next sunrise — Irum Zahra

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

What they achieved in art and literature is familiar to everybody, but what they did in the purely intellectual realm is even more exceptional. — Anonymous

Unlike sciences, literature as art relies on societal acceptance of a certain vocabulary. — Jimenez Lai

Science fiction films are not about science. They are about disaster, which is one of the oldest subjects of art. — Susan Sontag