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The web, then, or the pattern, a web at once sensuous and logical, an elegant and pregnant texture: that is style, that is the foundation of the art of literature. -- Robert Louis Stevenson
Literature is the art of discovering something extraordinary about ordinary people, and saying with ordinary words something extraordinary. -- Boris Pasternak
I do think that part of literature's job is to comment on and participate in the social issues of the time. -- Linda Sue Park
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. -- Vladimir Nabokov
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
The cinema occupies an important place in the overall development of art and literature. -- Kim Jong Il
Amazon is a corporation, not a philanthropic trust dedicated to the production of works of art and literature. -- Nick Harkaway
Literature is the art of writing something that will be read twice; journalism what will be grasped at once. -- Cyril Connolly
I'm into fashion because it contains the mood of the day, of the moment - like music, literature, and art. -- Zaha Hadid
Art is solace; art is vision, and when I pick up a literary work, I am a consumer of literature for its own sake. -- Wole Soyinka
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
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
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? -- Polly Toynbee
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. -- Ezra Taft Benson
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. -- Julian Barnes
Of course the illusion of art is to make one believe that great literature is very close to life, but exactly the opposite is true. Life is amorphous, literature is formal. -- Francoise Sagan
To me history ought to be a source of pleasure. It isn't just part of our civic responsibility. To me it's an enlargement of the experience of being alive, just the way literature or art or music is. -- David McCullough
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. -- Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar II
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. -- Mao Zedong
Not only are most of our citizens fathomlessly ignorant of the glories of American literature, a fast-growing percentage of our students are no longer taught much about any works of American art, be they novels, paintings, symphonies or ballets. -- Terry Teachout
You perhaps know me as a novelist. Literature is one of the arts - in fact, the noblest of the arts. That is not my opinion; it was first expressed by the ancients. As art, literature has many similarities with the other art forms. -- F. Sionil Jose
All great art and literature is propaganda. -- George Bernard Shaw
Art and literature are my surrogate religions. -- Peter Shaffer
Literature, art, like civilization itself, are only accidents. -- Joyce Carol Oates
More than art, more than literature, music is universally accessible. -- Billy Joel
Critics are those who have failed in literature and art. -- Benjamin Disraeli
Literature has drawn a funny perimeter that other art forms haven't. -- Jonathan Safran Foer
The greatest works of literature seem to embody both "art" and "morality". -- Joyce Carol Oates
Literature is the only art in which the audience performs the score. -- Kurt Vonnegut
I don't see why escapist literature shouldn't also be a work of art. -- P. D. James
Literature flourishes best when it is half a trade and half an art. -- William Ralph Inge
Unlike sciences, literature as art relies on societal acceptance of a certain vocabulary. -- Jimenez Lai
Literature was formerly an art and finance a trade; today it is the reverse -- Joseph Roux
Literature was formerly an art and finance a trade; today it is the reverse. -- Philibert Joseph Roux
There are vogues and fashions in jurisprudence as in literature and art and dress. -- Benjamin N. Cardozo
There are vogues and fashions in jurisprudence as in literature and art and dress. -- Benjamin N. Cardozo
Black literature is taught as sociology, as tolerance, not as a serious, rigorous art form." -- Toni Morrison
Black literature is taught as sociology, as tolerance, not as a serious, rigorous art form. -- Toni Morrison
There can be no freedom in art and literature where the government determines who shall create them. -- Ludwig von Mises
The sole substitute for an experience which we have not ourselves lived through is art and literature. -- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
While art thrives on the blazing colours of scandal, literature blossoms on the dark soil of tragedy. -- E.A. Bucchianeri
Literature, at least good literature, is science tempered with the blood of art. Like architecture or music. -- Carlos Ruiz Zafon
I'm kind of hooked to the game of art and literature; my heroes are artists and writers. -- Jim Morrison
All art, literature, and music must be born in your heart's blood. Art is your heart's blood. -- Edvard Munch
Of a life of luxury the fruit is luxury, whether in agriculture, or commerce, or literature, or art. -- Henry David Thoreau
All great literature has an uncreeded and luminous theology behind it... Art [is] a form of active prayer. -- Melissa Pritchard
I was much more interested in literature than I was in art. I just got into art by mistake. -- Peggy Guggenheim
Environmental concern is now firmly embedded in public life: in education, medicine and law; in journalism, literature and art. -- Barry Commoner
Rhetoric takes no real account of the art in literature and morality takes no account of the art in life. -- Joseph Wood Krutch
I grew up in an non-athletic family, where my parents were interested in music, in literature, in education and art. -- Bill Walton
As one who loves literature, art, music and history, I've been deeply rooted in the Harlem Renaissance for many years. -- Debbie Allen
Literature was intended to be dangerous. Art was meant to be dangerous. Ideas were nothing if they were not dangerous. -- Timothy Findley
I felt the comics grew because they became the common man's literature, the common man's art, the common man's publishing. -- Jack Kirby
I think our sensibility is not modernist anymore, that is, sensibility of people who are interested in art and literature. -- Louis Menand
In America, the only truly popular art form is the movies. Most people consider painting a hobby and literature, schoolwork. -- Brad Holland
Literature is invention. Fiction is fiction. To call a story a true story is an insult to both truth and art. -- Vladimir Nabokov
Since the last decades of the nineteenth century, revolt against the objectified world has determined the character of art and literature. -- Paul Tillich
We must stop chasing dollars, stop lying, stop cheating, stop ignoring art, literature, and all the refining agencies and instrumentalities of civilization. -- Ambrose Bierce
Explain to me, please, why in our literature and art so often people absolutely incompetent in this field have the final word, -- Mstislav Rostropovich
Explain to me, please, why in our literature and art so often people absolutely incompetent in this field have the final word. -- Mstislav Rostropovich
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
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
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
Being a systematic theologian allows me to indulge all my interests - in literature, film, art, music - by relating them all to God. -- Kevin Vanhoozer
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
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
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
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? -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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. -- Arthur Schopenhauer
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
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
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
It once occured to me that literature - all art really - is either talking to people about God, or talking to God about people. -- Paul Quarrington
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
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. -- John Fowles
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
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
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
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
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. -- Cillian Murphy
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. -- Swami Vivekananda
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. -- Hans-Ulrich Obrist
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. -- Abdourahman A. Waberi
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. -- Isaac Bashevis Singer
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. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt
...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. -- Orhan Pamuk
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. -- Minnie Maddern Fiske
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. -- Tristan Tzara
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. -- Gerhard Richter
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. -- Elie Wiesel
Theater, art, literature, cinema, press, posters, and window displays must be cleansed of all manifestations of our rotting world and placed in the service of a moral, political, and cultural idea. -- Adolf Hitler
The first forms of writing emerged not for art, literature, or love, not for spiritual or liturgical purposes, but for business--all literature could be said to originate from sales receipts (sorry). -- Daniel Levitin
The whole of Paris is a vast university of Art, Literature and Music... it is worth anyone's while to dally here for years. Paris is a seminar, a post-graduate course in everything. -- James Thurber
When science, art, literature, and philosophy are simply the manifestation of personality they are on a level where glorious and dazzling achievements are possible, which can make a man's name live for thousands of years. -- Denis Diderot

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