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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
I don't want to sound pretentious, but I love art, I like to go to museums, and I like to read books.
— Rainn Wilson
A life without books is a thirsty life, and one without poetry is ... like a life without pictures.
— Stephen King
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
It takes more courage to disturb the neighborhood than it takes to disturb the universe. And the price is often higher.
— E.L. Konigsburg
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
Supporting a creative artist can mean buying their books, music, art, movie, and photographs or just shouting out their name.
— Chris Mentillo
I have hundreds of art books and the biographies of artists I love, such as Thomas Eakins and Edgar Degas.
— Jamie Wyeth
We are creatures made as much by art as by experience and what we read in books is the sum of both.
— Andy Miller
Sinclair Lewis may be ripe for a revival; his books raise several interesting issues of art and fashion.
— Jane Smiley
Nothing is what one thinks it is. Cloth is stone and circus is an art. There are no certainties.
— Walter Moers
Art needs to be socialised, and you need a lot of context to understand that, and that doesn't mean having read a few art history books.
— Peter M. Brant
And yet, in terms of its emotive potential, I still find art more attractive, currently, than books, which fail at a deeper level.
— Andrew Miller
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
Great children's books are wisdom dipped in words and art.
— Peter H. Reynolds
Every year, humanity produces some 30,000 films, 2 million books and 100,000 albums, and 95 million people visit a museum or art gallery.
— Alain De Botton
Art, he said, isn't your little paintings and comic books. Art is the meteor that wiped out the dinosaurs.
— Joey Comeau
Dirty Freds ... I love this filthy old place. I love the dust and the dirt, the crappy old books and the objects of art.
— Alan C. Martin
There is beauty in the art, and a story in the words! spk
— Susan Pace-Koch
While art thrives on the blazing colours of scandal, literature blossoms on the dark soil of tragedy.
— E.A. Bucchianeri
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
Books minister to our knowledge, to our guidance, and to our delight, by their truth, their uprightness, and their art.
— George Henry Lewes
I owe it all to art books, chocolate and young men.
— Beatrice Wood
[P]art of the pleasure of engaging with a writer is unraveling some allusions and admitting defeat by others.
— Felipe Fernandez-Armesto
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
Literature is the art of discovering something extraordinary about ordinary people, and saying with ordinary words something extraordinary.
— Boris Pasternak
the best of Cervantes is untranslatable, and this undeniable fact is in itself an incentive [for one and all] to learn Spanish.
— Aubrey F.G. Bell
Things that bring out your emotions are what should be in theaters and in books. That's what art is. It makes you feel things.
— Dominique Swain
I long ago ran out of bookshelf space and so, like a museum with its art, simply rotate my books from the boxes to the shelves and back again.
— Michael Dirda
Art is amoral; so is life. For me there are no obscene pictures or books; there are only poorly conceived and poorly executed ones.
— Irving Stone
There's been million-seller books and million-seller CDs. But there hasn't been, until now, million-seller art.
— Thomas Kinkade
The library was open for one hour after school let out. I hid there, looking at art books and reading poetry.
— Lynda Barry
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
I just love comic books. I've always loved comic book art, and I just think it's amazing.
— Zayn Malik
Paris and Fashion. Books and Art. What would one be ... without the other?
— Peggy Kopman-Owens
Books can ignite fires in your mind, because they carry ideas for kindling, and art for matches.
— Gary D. Schmidt
Reading's not a luxury, art's not a luxury. It's about your soul, and it's about yourself. And if reading is a luxury, being human is a luxury
— Jeanette Winterson
I have lots of passions - gardens, art, music and reading. I have eclectic taste and read a huge variety of books.
— Zoe Wanamaker
Books and movies are different art forms with different rules. And because of that, they never translate exactly.
— Tom Clancy
There are more valid facts and details in works of art than there are in history books.
— Charlie Chaplin
Books work as an art form (and an economic one) because they are primarily the work of an individual.
— Seth Godin
I'm always hiding the books in my closet, and my art's always turned upside down in my drawer.
— Daniel Clowes