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Half of all the great art and literature in existence went unrecognised during the lifetimes of its creators. — Alastair Reynolds

Poetry lies at the centre of the literary experience because it is the form that most clearly asserts the specificity of literature. — Jonathan Culler

I'm into fashion because it contains the mood of the day, of the moment - like music, literature, and art. — Zaha Hadid

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

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

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

Literature will save me it's the only certainty i am sure of. — Nikki Rowe

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

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

No one writes anything worth writing, unless he writes entirely for the sake of his subject. — Arthur Schopenhauer

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

Insomnia

I wonder
If those talks matter
Few done in the clarity of day
Or the many
Done at 3 a.m. in the morning — Irum Zahra

All forms of madness, bizarre habits, awkwardness in society, general clumsiness, are justified in the person who creates good art. — Roman Payne

Rhetoric takes no real account of the art in literature and morality takes no account of the art in life. — Joseph Wood Krutch

Of a life of luxury the fruit is luxury, whether in agriculture, or commerce, or literature, or art. — Henry David Thoreau

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

To translate knowledge and information into experience: that seems to be the function of literature and art. — Joseph Campbell

Literature is the art of writing something that will be read twice. — Cyril Connolly

Heretics are the only [bitter] remedy against the entropy of human thought.
("Literature, Revolution, and Entropy") — Yevgeny Zamyatin

In order to be created, a work of art must first make use of the dark forces of the soul — Albert Camus

While art thrives on the blazing colours of scandal, literature blossoms on the dark soil of tragedy. — E.A. Bucchianeri

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

Man needs music, literature, and painting - all those oases of perfection that make up art - to compensate for the rudeness and materialism of life. — Fernando Botero

The art of letters will come to an end before A.D. 2000. I shall survive as a curiosity. — Ezra Pound

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

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

Amazon is a corporation, not a philanthropic trust dedicated to the production of works of art and literature. — Nick Harkaway

The aim of good prose words is to mean what they say. The aim of good poetical words is to mean what they do not say. — Gilbert K. Chesterton

Art is apotheosis; often, the complaint of beauty. — Dejan Stojanovic

Literature, art, science, and religion degenerate when polemical struggle supplants the independent creation of ideas. — Semen Frank

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

The decay of society is praised by artists as the decay of a corpse is praised by worms. — Gilbert K. Chesterton

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

Literature is the aesthetic exploitation of language — Anthony Burgess

Orlando said it was important for scientists to have minds kept open by literature, and souls touched by the creativity of art. — Megan Frazer Blakemore

Literature is the art of discovering something extraordinary about ordinary people, and saying with ordinary words something extraordinary. — Boris Pasternak

Flying is not only the art of the birds, but it is also the art of the artists! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

The sinews of art and literature, like those of war, are money. — Samuel Butler

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

Every page should explode, either because of its staggering absurdity, the enthusiasm of its principles, or its typography. — Tristan Tzara

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

What makes up a life; events or the recollection of events?
How much of recollection is invention?
Whose invention? — Jeanette Winterson

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

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

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

The beautification of the world is not a work of nature, but a work of art, then it involves an artist. — Gilbert K. Chesterton

Literature, at least good literature, is science tempered with the blood of art. Like architecture or music. — Carlos Ruiz Zafon

The cinema occupies an important place in the overall development of art and literature. — Kim Jong Il

The morality of art consists, for everyone, in the side that flatters its own interests. People do not like literature. — Gustave Flaubert

WE ARE the PULSE of the TIMES! — Carrie White

Time and death: It's the ultimate vision of an artist at the end of everything. It's just what's there. It was not something I planned to do. — Don DeLillo

I'm kind of hooked to the game of art and literature; my heroes are artists and writers. — Jim Morrison