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Cooper's art has some defects. In one place in 'Deerslayer,' and in the restricted space of two-thirds of a page, Cooper has scored 114 offences against literary art out of a possible 115. It breaks the record. ~ Mark Twain
Literary Art quotes by Mark Twain
In Red Flags, Juris Jurjevics has brilliantly accomplished a feat that is becoming a major characteristic of 21st century literature: the seamless combining of a genre form with the deep resonance of literary art. This book is thrilling to read for both its narrative drive and its insight into the human heart. ~ Robert Olen Butler
Literary Art quotes by Robert Olen Butler
The worst feature of the Common Core is its anti-humanistic, utilitarian approach to education. It mistakes what a child is and what a human being is for. That is why it has no use for poetry, and why it boils the study of literature down to the scrambling up of some marketable "skill" [ ... ] you don't read good books to learn about what literary artists do ... you learn about literary art so that you can read more good books and learn more from them. It is as if Thomas Gradgrind had gotten hold of the humanities and turned them into factory robotics. ~ Anthony Esolen
Literary Art quotes by Anthony Esolen
A literary creation can appeal to us in all sorts of ways-by its theme, subject, situations, characters. But above all it appeals to us by the presence in it of art. It is the presence of art in Crime and Punishment that moves us deeply rather than the story of Raskolnikov's crime. ~ Boris Pasternak
Literary Art quotes by Boris Pasternak
Self-censorship is a lie to yourself; if you are going to be trying to seriously create art, to create literary art, and you decide to hold back, to censor yourself, then you are a fool to yourself and it would be better that you kept your mouth shut and did not speak. ~ Salman Rushdie
Literary Art quotes by Salman Rushdie
NOVEL, n. A short story padded. A species of composition bearing the same relation to literature that the panorama bears to art. As it is too long to be read at a sitting the impressions made by its successive parts are successively effaced, as in the panorama. Unity, totality of effect, is impossible; for besides the few pages last read all that is carried in mind is the mere plot of what has gone before. To the romance the novel is what photography is to painting. Its distinguishing principle, probability, corresponds to the literal actuality of the photograph and puts it distinctly into the category of reporting; whereas the free wing of the romancer enables him to mount to such altitudes of imagination as he may be fitted to attain; and the first three essentials of the literary art are imagination, imagination and imagination. The art of writing novels, such as it was, is long dead everywhere except in Russia, where it is new. Peace to its ashes - some of which have a large sale. ~ Ambrose Bierce
Literary Art quotes by Ambrose Bierce
The consolation of fairy-stories, the joy of the happy ending: or more correctly of the good catastrophe, the sudden joyous "turn" (for there is no true end to any fairy-tale): this joy, which is one of the things which fairy-stories can produce supremely well, is not essentially "escapist," nor "fugitive." In its fairy-tale--or otherworld--setting, it is a sudden and miraculous grace: never to be counted on to recur. It does not deny the existence of dyscatastrophe, of sorrow and failure: the possibility of these is necessary to the joy of deliverance; it denies (in the face of much evidence, if you will) universal final defeat and in so far is evangelium, giving a fleeting glimpse of Joy, Joy beyond the walls of the world, poignant as grief.

It is the mark of a good fairy-story, of the higher or more complete kind, that however wild its events, however fantastic or terrible the adventures, it can give to child or man that hears it, when the "turn" comes, a catch of the breath, a beat and lifting of the heart, near to (or indeed accompanied by) tears, as keen as that given by any form of literary art, and having a peculiar quality ... In such stories when the sudden "turn" comes we get a piercing glimpse of joy, and heart's desire, that for a moment passes outside the frame, rends indeed the very web of story, and lets a gleam come through. ~ J.R.R. Tolkien
Literary Art quotes by J.R.R. Tolkien
The aim of great books is ethical: to teach what it means to be a man. Every major form of literary art has taken for its deeper themes what T.S. Eliot called "the permanent things"-the norms of human action. ~ Russell Kirk
Literary Art quotes by Russell Kirk
They do the essential work of literary art: they make us more human than we were before. (from the Introduction to Tiny Beautiful Things by Cheryl Strayed) ~ Steve Almond
Literary Art quotes by Steve Almond
It is dangerous to condemn stories as junk which satisfy the deep hunger of millions of people. These books are not literary art, but a great deal of what is acclaimed as literary art in our time offers no comfort or fulfillment to anybody. ~ Judith Skelton Grant
Literary Art quotes by Judith Skelton Grant
I often find myself privately stewing about much British art, thinking that except for their tremendous gardens, that the English are not primarily visual artists, and are, in nearly unsurpassable ways, literary. ~ Jerry Saltz
Literary Art quotes by Jerry Saltz
An essay is a work of literary art which has a minimum of one anecdote and one universal idea. ~ Carol Bly
Literary Art quotes by Carol Bly
Our job, then, is two-fold: to focus on our own failings as writers. But also to speak more forcefully as advocates for literature. Books are a powerful antidote for loneliness, for the moral purposelessness of the leisure class. It's our job to convince the 95 percent of people who don't read books, who instead medicate themselves in front of screens, that literary art isn't some esoteric tradition, but a direct path to meaning, to an understanding of the terror that lives beneath our consumptive ennui. ~ Steve Almond
Literary Art quotes by Steve Almond
In literary art, as in the art of the architect, the painter, the musician, signs that the artist is thinking of his own achievement more than of his subject always offend me. ~ Herbert Spencer
Literary Art quotes by Herbert Spencer
The art in photography is literary art before it is anything else: its triumphs and monuments are historical, anecdotal, reportorial, observational before they are purely pictorial ... The photograph has to tell a story if it is to work as art. ~ Clement Greenberg
Literary Art quotes by Clement Greenberg
If Art relates itself to an Object, it becomes descriptive, divisionist, literary. ~ Robert Delaunay
Literary Art quotes by Robert Delaunay
The reason why the continental European is, to the Englishman or American, so surprisingly ignorant of the Bible, is that the authorized English version is a great work of literary art, and the continental versions are comparatively artless. ~ George Bernard Shaw
Literary Art quotes by George Bernard Shaw
In the modern world, all literary art is necessarily political
especially that which pretends not to be. ~ Edward Abbey
Literary Art quotes by Edward Abbey
Recent fads in history and biography have increasingly exalted the aridity of chronology and fact, and have, with some valid reason, rejected romanticizing and the presumption of guessing at the inner thoughts of historical figures. Unfortunately, the result has largely been not to demythologize the past, but merely to dehumanize and depersonalize it. As Roger Mudd has pointed out, 'Too many of today's historians [and biographers] ... seem to have forgotten that the writing of history is a literary art. ~ Markham Shaw Pyle
Literary Art quotes by Markham Shaw Pyle
Literary critics, however, frequently suffer from a curious belief that every author longs to extend the boundaries of literary art, wants to explore new dimensions of the human spirit, and if he doesn't, he should be ashamed of himself. ~ Robertson Davies
Literary Art quotes by Robertson Davies
San Francisco itself is art, above all literary art. Every block is a short story, every hill a novel. Every home a poem, every dweller within immortal. That is the whole truth. ~ William, Saroyan
Literary Art quotes by William, Saroyan
The only really Christian art is that which, like St. Francis, does not fear being wedded to poverty. This rises far above art-as-ornament. ~ Andre Gide
Literary Art quotes by Andre Gide
Just the omission of Jane Austen's books alone would make a fairly good library out of a library that hadn't a book in it. ~ Mark Twain
Literary Art quotes by Mark Twain
When the creative impulse sweeps over you, grab it. You grab it and honor it and use it, because momentum is a rare gift. ~ Justina Chen
Literary Art quotes by Justina Chen
One might say that where Religion becomes artificial, it is reserved for Art to save the spirit of religion. ~ Richard Wagner
Literary Art quotes by Richard Wagner
I like "Julie Gold's song "From a Distance". Her song reminds me of the world as seen through an observer's eye. Seen from a distance, we are people in the same band playing music for everyone. We are artists who play the most beautiful instruments in the world - life. ~ Ilchi Lee
Literary Art quotes by Ilchi Lee
Your life will contribute to a grand and wonderful story no matter what you do. You have been spoken. You are here, existing, choosing, living, shaping the future and carving the past. Your physical matter and your soul exist, not out of necessity, not voluntarily, and not under their own strength. There is absolutely nothing that you or I can do to guarantee that we will continue to exist. You aren't doing anything that makes you be. We aren't the Author. You and I are spoken. We have been called into this art as characters, born into this thread of occurrence tumbling downstream in the long Niagara of loss set in motion by the trouble that faced our first father and first mother. We will contribute to this narrative. But how? ~ N.D. Wilson
Literary Art quotes by N.D. Wilson
My vision is to not only define food and cooking as an art, but to go back to the roots of cooking and showcase the process through a more simplistic, ethereal approach as an expression of life and living. ~ Lorena Garcia
Literary Art quotes by Lorena Garcia
I'm more interested in the idea of role-playing in general than the idea of role-playing in art. I like the childlike quality of making pretend or the optimistic idea of pretending something's happening when it's not. ~ Laurel Nakadate
Literary Art quotes by Laurel Nakadate
The art of progress is to preserve order amid change, and to preserve change amid order. Life refuses to be embalmed alive. The more prolonged the halt in some unrelieved system of order, the greater the crash of the dead society. ~ Alfred North Whitehead
Literary Art quotes by Alfred North Whitehead
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
Literary Art quotes by Andrew Miller
A smart city is an intelligent town that provides enormous possibilities for human growth through art, culture, social, architectural, economic, political, environmental, and scientific flowering with the optimal mix of nature, technology, humanity, and arts. ~ Amit Ray
Literary Art quotes by Amit Ray
Oh! Do not excite yourself. Shall I say that he interested me because he was trying to grow a mustache and as yet the result is poor." Poirot stroked his own magnificent mustache tenderly. "It is an art," he murmured, "the growing of the mustache! I have sympathy for all who attempt it. ~ Agatha Christie
Literary Art quotes by Agatha Christie
For me as a person who's in the arts and as someone who understands the magnitude of our contributions and the price that was paid to contribute to that, that we just have not gotten that together. I will do all that I can to get in front of our kids, to try to teach them, but at a certain point the people have to want it and come towards it. ~ Wynton Marsalis
Literary Art quotes by Wynton Marsalis
Many of the left thinkers that really matter to me - that formed a big part of my thinking about politics and art - emphasize how capitalism is a totality, how there's no escape from it, no outside. ~ Ben Lerner
Literary Art quotes by Ben Lerner
Basically, I viewed any work of art as an imposition of another person's taste, and saw the individual making this imposition as a kind of dictator. ~ Henry Flynt
Literary Art quotes by Henry Flynt
I'm for mechanical art. When I took up silk screening, it was to more fully exploit the preconceived image through the commercial techniques of multiple reproduction. ~ Andy Warhol
Literary Art quotes by Andy Warhol
Calligraphy, a spiritual art that has been forgotten in favor of an emotionless keyboard. ~ Stefan Boldisor
Literary Art quotes by Stefan Boldisor
If the real world is orange juice, then art is like orange-juice concentrate. ~ Martin Mull
Literary Art quotes by Martin Mull
I think about my art works as paintings, because they refer to the history of painting. I also have to think about them as sculptures, because every part of the process is part of the project. They're sculptures because they play on the idea of what should be hanging in a gallery. In that sense they're also kind of ready-mades. ~ Cory Arcangel
Literary Art quotes by Cory Arcangel
I am the most curious of all to see what will be the next thing that I will do. ~ Jacques Lipchitz
Literary Art quotes by Jacques Lipchitz
I've been told that I cannot change shit, so I might as well stop torturing myself. My emotions are ridiculed and branded as childish. I have been told that the world has given up on my people. I have been told, and realise that on many occasions, I myself am viewed as an outcast by some of those suffering. I've been confronted and my answer is always the same: I care even in my most fucked-up moments. I care even when gates of shit pour open to drown me; I care because I am a citizen of the world. ~ Asaad Almohammad
Literary Art quotes by Asaad Almohammad
The study of history and philosophy, accompanied by some acquaintance with art and literature, should be for lawyers and engineers as well as for those who study in arts faculties. ~ Terry Eagleton
Literary Art quotes by Terry Eagleton
The eleventh commandment of art: thou shalt not be boring. ~ W.M. Driscoll
Literary Art quotes by W.M. Driscoll
In peace prepare for war, in war prepare for peace. The art of war is of vital importance to the state. It is matter of life and death, a road either to safety or to ruin. Hence under no circumstances can it be neglected. ~ Sun Tzu
Literary Art quotes by Sun Tzu
What is a woman? I assure you, I do not know ... I do not believe that anybody can know until she has expressed herself in all the arts and professions open to human skill. ~ Virginia Woolf
Literary Art quotes by Virginia Woolf
The Bible is probably the most genocidal book in the literary canon. ~ Noam Chomsky
Literary Art quotes by Noam Chomsky
I'm from the beatnik generation, where everybody wanted to be a poet or writer or something. And at that time, I was a jazz critic, and I was always thinking, theorizing about what makes great art or what's important in art. ~ Harvey Pekar
Literary Art quotes by Harvey Pekar
At the University of Maryland, my first year I started off planning to major in art because I was interested in theatre design, stage design or television design. ~ Jim Henson
Literary Art quotes by Jim Henson
Try to remember that artists in these catastrophic times, along with the serious scientists, are the only salvation for us, if there is to be any. ~ William H. Gass
Literary Art quotes by William H. Gass
There are some centuries which - apart from everything else - in the art and other disciplines presume to remake everything because they know how to make nothing. ~ Giacomo Leopardi
Literary Art quotes by Giacomo Leopardi
In fact, when you're trying to change, it is sometimes preferable not to rely so much on your experience. In today's world of change, that experience is almost a negative. Why? Because experience can tie you to the past. Experience ties you to old ways of doing things and old ways of thinking that for today may no longer be nearly as effective. For more effective change, you need flexibility--a willingness to listen more to others than to yourself and to try new things rather than repeat what you've always done. ~ Art E. Berg
Literary Art quotes by Art E. Berg
Art gives to you a new conception of reality, opens your mind, opens your heart, opens your desire of action. ~ Alejandro Jodorowsky
Literary Art quotes by Alejandro Jodorowsky
What had those vile creatures unleashed in me? What beast had they awakened? I think I vowed to kill the beast and bury it so deep in the abyss it would never again rear its ugly head. Part of me did make this promise. The other part embraced an unfolding of life's inextinguishable flames and the mind's unspoken bondage.
As far as reinforcing the strength of my mind's resolve, I supposed my body was a useless entity. Rather, it was this fancy thing I lived in - a mausoleum that beckoned the living, promising gratification, refuge, solace, peace, even immortality. It wasn't me. It wasn't mine. I realized then, it had never belonged to me. I could control what happened to it only if people were merciful. Watching Valentin was not merciful. It was a torturous joy. ~ Kyrian Lyndon
Literary Art quotes by Kyrian Lyndon
Do not discuss the religious matters with people; do not waste your valuable time to discuss the untruth! Your time is short; spend it for the science and the art! ~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
Literary Art quotes by Mehmet Murat Ildan
We have to support our local artists. It's just that simple. Otherwise, we will have no art. ~ Al Jourgensen
Literary Art quotes by Al Jourgensen
We have art in order not to die from the truth. - NIETZSCHE ~ Donna Tartt
Literary Art quotes by Donna Tartt
It is not the job of art to mirror. Images reflected in a mirror appear to us in reverse. An artist's responsibility is to reveal consciousness; to produce a human document. ~ Squeak Carnwath
Literary Art quotes by Squeak Carnwath
I often have the feeling that even at the best of times literary criticism is fraudulent, since in the absence of any accepted standards whatever
any external reference which can give meaning to the statement that such and such a book is "good" or "bad"
every literary judgement consists in trumping up a set of rules to justify an instinctive preference. One's real reaction to a book, when one has a reaction at all, is usually "I like this book" or "I don't like it" and what follows is a rationalisation. ~ George Orwell
Literary Art quotes by George Orwell
A king-size bed sat catty-corner opposite me. The bedroom was painted white, but the comforter was crimson. Small black velvet bird appliques swarmed in the center. I'm not much for art. I'll confess the deeper meaning of the twisted comforter was lost on me. Maybe death to all swallows? ~ Hailey Edwards
Literary Art quotes by Hailey Edwards
With each change of definition in art, something considered non-art or bad art by a previous generation is suddenly acceptable. ~ Thomas Hoving
Literary Art quotes by Thomas Hoving
Forms in art arise from the impact of idea upon material ... so that thinking and belief and attitudes may endure as actual things. ~ Ben Shahn
Literary Art quotes by Ben Shahn
We are drawn to the Renaissance because of the hope for black uplift and interracial empathy that it embodied and because there is a certain element of romanticism associated with the era's creativity, its seemingly larger than life heroes and heroines, and its most brilliantly lit terrain, Harlem, USA. ~ Clement Alexander Price
Literary Art quotes by Clement Alexander Price
There is something embarrassing in ... the way in which, ... turning suffering into images, harsh and uncompromising though they are, ... wounds the shame we feel in the presence of the victims. For these victims are used to create something, works of art, that are thrown to the consumption of a world which destroyed them. ~ Theodor Adorno
Literary Art quotes by Theodor Adorno
The secret of art is love. ~ Antoine Bourdelle
Literary Art quotes by Antoine Bourdelle
I don't care about truth; I care about art and style and writing and occupying the wall. For me, my writing style is very linked to the fact that it is a work of art on the wall. I had to find a way to write in concise, effective phrases that people standing or walking into a room could read. ~ Sophie Calle
Literary Art quotes by Sophie Calle
Drummond is many things, and one of those things is a magician. ( ... ) Art is magic, and so is pop. Bill Drummond is a cultural magician, and 45 is his logbook. Shelve alongside Brian Eno's A Year With Swollen Appendices. Hail Discordia ! ~ Charles Shaar Murray
Literary Art quotes by Charles Shaar Murray
I have never been able to make out," I began, "why women are so shy about being caught reading poetry.
We men--lawyers, mechanics, or what not--may well feel ashamed. If we must read poetry, it should be at dead of night, within closed doors. But you women are so akin to poesy. The Creator Himself is a lyric poet, and Jayadeva must have practised the divine art seated at His feet. ~ Rabindranath Tagore
Literary Art quotes by Rabindranath Tagore
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