Quotes about Literature and Art

There are vogues and fashions in jurisprudence as in literature and art and dress. Votes: 4

Environmental concern is now firmly embedded in public life: in education, medicine and law; in journalism, literature and art. Votes: 4

There is in fact no such thing as art for art's sake, art that stands above classes, art that is detached from or independent of politics. Proletarian literature and art are part of the whole proletarian revolutionary cause. Votes: 4

Critics are those who have failed in literature and art. Votes: 3

There are vogues and fashions in jurisprudence as in literature and art and dress. Votes: 3

Explain to me, please, why in our literature and art so often people absolutely incompetent in this field have the final word. Votes: 3

Explain to me, please, why in our literature and art so often people absolutely incompetent in this field have the final word, Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

Each age, each guilty age, builds high walls around its Versailles; and personally I hate those walls most when they are made by literature and art. Votes: 3

The two World Wars came in part, like much modern literature and art, because men, whose nature is to tire of everything in turn... tired of common sense and civilization. Votes: 3

I believe love at first sight is possible. Centuries of literature and art and beauty has been dedicated to that idea, so who am I to argue, even if I've never experienced it? Votes: 3

It is a law woven into the nature of man, attested by history, by science, by literature and art, and by dally experience, that strength of mind and force of character are the supreme rulers of human affairs. Votes: 3

Even in literature and art, no man who bothers about originality will ever be original: whereas if you simply try to tell the truth (without caring twopence how often it has been told before) you will, nine times out of ten, become original without ever having noticed it. Votes: 3

Art and literature are my surrogate religions. Votes: 2

The sinews of art and literature, like those of war, are money. Votes: 2

Literature flourishes best when it is half a trade and half an art. Votes: 2

The cinema occupies an important place in the overall development of art and literature. Votes: 2

The sole substitute for an experience which we have not ourselves lived through is art and literature. Votes: 2

Amazon is a corporation, not a philanthropic trust dedicated to the production of works of art and literature. Votes: 2

Literature is the art of discovering something extraordinary about ordinary people, and saying with ordinary words something extraordinary. Votes: 2

I'm into fashion because it contains the mood of the day, of the moment - like music, literature, and art. Votes: 2

In America, the only truly popular art form is the movies. Most people consider painting a hobby and literature, schoolwork. Votes: 2

It is unhappily true that much insincere Literature and Art, executed solely with a view to effect, does succeed by deceiving the public. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

Art is solace; art is vision, and when I pick up a literary work, I am a consumer of literature for its own sake. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

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! Votes: 2

Encourage good music and art and literature in your homes. Homes that have a spirit of refinement and beauty will bless the lives of your children forever. Votes: 2

How do you make any sense of history, art or literature without knowing the stories and iconography of your own culture and all the world's main religions? Votes: 2

I'm kind of hooked to the game of art and literature; my heroes are artists and writers. Votes: 1

All great art and literature is propaganda. Votes: 0

Literature, art, like civilization itself, are only accidents. Votes: 0

More than art, more than literature, music is universally accessible. Votes: 0

Literature has drawn a funny perimeter that other art forms haven't. Votes: 0

The greatest works of literature seem to embody both "art" and "morality". Votes: 0

Literature is the only art in which the audience performs the score. Votes: 0

The narrative of serial art works more like music than like literature. Votes: 0

I don't see why escapist literature shouldn't also be a work of art. Votes: 0

Unlike sciences, literature as art relies on societal acceptance of a certain vocabulary. Votes: 0

Literature was formerly an art and finance a trade; today it is the reverse Votes: 0

Literature was formerly an art and finance a trade; today it is the reverse. Votes: 0

Black literature is taught as sociology, as tolerance, not as a serious, rigorous art form. Votes: 0

Black literature is taught as sociology, as tolerance, not as a serious, rigorous art form." Votes: 0

Literature, at least good literature, is science tempered with the blood of art. Like architecture or music. Votes: 0

While art thrives on the blazing colours of scandal, literature blossoms on the dark soil of tragedy. Votes: 0

All art, literature, and music must be born in your heart's blood. Art is your heart's blood. Votes: 0

There can be no freedom in art and literature where the government determines who shall create them. Votes: 0

All great literature has an uncreeded and luminous theology behind it... Art [is] a form of active prayer. Votes: 0

Of a life of luxury the fruit is luxury, whether in agriculture, or commerce, or literature, or art. Votes: 0

I was much more interested in literature than I was in art. I just got into art by mistake. Votes: 0

Literature is the art of writing something that will be read twice; journalism what will be grasped at once. Votes: 0

Rhetoric takes no real account of the art in literature and morality takes no account of the art in life. Votes: 0

Literature was intended to be dangerous. Art was meant to be dangerous. Ideas were nothing if they were not dangerous. Votes: 0

I felt the comics grew because they became the common man's literature, the common man's art, the common man's publishing. Votes: 0

I think our sensibility is not modernist anymore, that is, sensibility of people who are interested in art and literature. Votes: 0

As one who loves literature, art, music and history, I've been deeply rooted in the Harlem Renaissance for many years. Votes: 0

I grew up in an non-athletic family, where my parents were interested in music, in literature, in education and art. Votes: 0

Literature is invention. Fiction is fiction. To call a story a true story is an insult to both truth and art. Votes: 0

Since the last decades of the nineteenth century, revolt against the objectified world has determined the character of art and literature. Votes: 0

We must stop chasing dollars, stop lying, stop cheating, stop ignoring art, literature, and all the refining agencies and instrumentalities of civilization. Votes: 0

Take the time to discover how African-Americans have had a great impact on this country. In science, education, literature, art, and politics. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Being a systematic theologian allows me to indulge all my interests - in literature, film, art, music - by relating them all to God. Votes: 0

Critics are the eunuchs of literature. They stand by in envious awe while the whole man and his partner demonstrate the art of living. Votes: 0

Young artists must pave their way to Art by drawing pictures for magazine stories that young authors write to pave their way to Literature. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Is all literature eavesdropping, and all art Chinese imitation? our life a custom, and our body borrowed, like a beggar's dinner, from a hundred charities? Votes: 0

A community united by the ideals of compassion and creativity has incredible power. Art of all kinds---music, literature, traditional arts, visual arts---can lift a community. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

The general history of art and literature shows that the highest achievements of the human mind are, as a rule, not favourably received at first. Votes: 0

It once occured to me that literature - all art really - is either talking to people about God, or talking to God about people. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Man needs music, literature, and painting - all those oases of perfection that make up art - to compensate for the rudeness and materialism of life. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

In an oppressive society the truth-telling nature of literature is of a different order, and sometimes valued more highly than other elements in a work of art. Votes: 0

Everything progresses in waves. The march of civilization, the progression of worlds, is in waves. All human activities likewise progress in waves - art, literature, science, religion. Votes: 0

I'm interested in pressure, I'm interested in duress. All the great works of art, or film or literature, in my opinion, have elements of those in them. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Between the wolf in the tall grass and the wolf in the tall story there is a shimmering go-between. That go-between, that prism, is the art of literature. Votes: 0

Inequality may linger in the world of material things, but great music, great literature, great art and the wonders of science are, and should be, open to all. Votes: 0

When literature becomes overly erudite, it means that interest in the art has gone and curiosity about the artist is what's important. It becomes a kind of idolatry. Votes: 0

In your opinion, where do private and political life, personal history and History meet? You know the answer, Maya. You say it unhesitatingly - in art and literature. Votes: 0

Work! labor the asparagus me of life; the one great sacrament of humanity from which all other things flow - security, leisure, joy, art, literature, even divinity itself. Votes: 0

I founded a club, which is called the Brutally Early Club. It's basically a breakfast salon for the 21st century where art meets science meets architecture meets literature. Votes: 0

Pain is essential. Often I cannot avoid it.Therefore all one can do is redeem it; and the only way to redeem it is through literature, art, poetry, music. Votes: 0

...a nation could change its way of life, its history, its technology, its art, literature, and culture, but it would never have a real chance to change its gestures. Votes: 0

People whose understanding and taste in literature, painting, and music are beyond question are, for the most part, ignorant of what is good or bad art in the theater. Votes: 0

Any work of art that can be understood is the product of journalism. The rest, called literature, is a dossier of human imbecility for the guidance of future professors. Votes: 0

I don't how I can describe the quality that is only found in art (be it music, literature, painting, or whatever), this quality, it's just there, and it endures. Votes: 0