Top 1200 Literary Art Quotes & Sayings - Page 19

History has proven that art depicting black people cannot be disentangled from the political implications that such art has on their lives. As Africans were being stripped from the continent and sailed across the Atlantic to the Western world, depictions of black people in Western art changed in order to further render them racialized caricatures.

Generally, literary prizes are significant not for who the winner is but the discussion they create around books.

On the whole, most biographies about literary women tend to diagnose them.

I guess I'm drawn to artists and literary people and want to learn about them.

I like being able to provide consistent and frequent literary choices for my fans.

My parents were reasoned and deep thinkers. My dad is an intellectual and a literary man.

Reading 'Moby-Dick' was really a sort of transformative literary experience for me.

After the last line of a poem, nothing follows except literary criticism.

The art market is global now, and theres becoming more of an international consensus about what constitutes good art.

One of the challenges to our nation today is overcoming the notion that art is kind of a nice-to-have, when in reality art is a need-to-have.

Ah, but art and trouble go hand in hand. If you cannot be troubled to create art from your heart, then your art will never trouble the heart of others.

Weather is a literary specialty, and no untrained hand can turn out a good article on it

The syllogism art for art's sake refers to that kind of painting which disregards, or is contrary to, public taste.

Art is something to be proud of. Art is no compromise. As an actor, you're giving it up, you're at the mercy of so many other people.

A clear idea about the nature of quality in art will always result in inferior art tailored to it.

I read a lot of sci-fi when I was younger. Loved it from the literary point of view.

Just as the science and art of agriculture depend upon chemistry and botany, so the art of education depends upon physiology and psychology.

Art itself is knowledge of the spiritual world. Art is information from higher forces, by those who are talented. I'm not jiving.

But perhaps my art is the art of a lunatic, I thought, mere glittering quicksilver, a blue soul breaking in upon my pictures.

When my brain begins to reel from my literary labors, I make an occasional cheese dip.

Let your literary compositions be kept from the public eye for nine years at least.

I believe that an art exhibition can be engaging, fun and deeply intellectually satisfying and serious. These are not contradictory concepts in art.

No man has an appreciation so various that his judgment is good upon all varieties of literary work.

I'll be happy if I can gain even the smallest place inside the literary imagination of U.S. readers.

To literary critics a book is assumed to be guilty until it proves itself innocent.

The more melancholy side of my literary personality is much in tune with BS Johnson's.

On the whole, I rather disapprove of cookbooks, except for the literary ones, like Elizabeth David's.

The heroes of literary history have been no less remarkable for what they have suffered than for what they have achieved.

Translation presents not merely a paradigm but the utmost case of engaged literary interpretation

By my definition, most art has nothing to do with oil paint or marble. Art is what we're doing when we do our best work.

Invention is almost the only literary labour which blindness cannot obstruct.

Slang is the speech of him who robs the literary garbage carts on their way to the dumps.

Poetry is an art, and chief of the fine art; the easiest to dabble in, the hardest in which to reach true excellence.

A literary journal is intended to connect writer with reader; the role of the editor is to mediate.

Something is missing in our culture. We can't quite celebrate the scientific literary tradition.

Art is maybe a subversive activity. There is a certain rebellion when you are an artist at heart, even if only in the art of living.

When it comes to the street-art world, there are a lot of people who realize if they go out and put up a few pieces of street art and photograph them really well, even if their locations weren't actually that high-profile or dangerous, with the level of exposure they get from the Internet, with a large audience, they can maintain that rebel cache by having it be theoretically documented street art.

Neither camera, nor lens, nor film determine the quality of pictures; it is the visual perception of the man behind the mechanism which brings them to life. Art contains the allied ideas of making and begetting, of being master of one's craft and able to create. Without these properties no art exists and no photographic art can come into being

We were told, quite seriously, that there never would be a Canadian art because we had no art tradition.

Why I talk so seriously about art is that art is the only thing that helps people stay alive, and it is the only thing that has allowed people to create joy in this insane, suppressive universe. And art is the only thing that they can't get rid of. They've tried, but ultimately they can't stamp it out.

"Art is the ability to turn one's gaze to the world of oblivion." This is the way in which I understand art at fundamental level.

Nature does not create works of art. It is we, and the faculty of interpretation peculiar to the human mind, that see art.

True art is alive and inspired by humanity. I believe that art helps us to be free from aggression and depression.

Literary Party: A traffic jam of the lost waiting for the ferry across the Styx.

I always say, and I mean it, that the great break of my literary career was when I went to law school.

The Literary and Artistic heritage of humanity should be used for partisan propaganda purposes.

I've summarized dozens of books in my literary career; it's become rather second nature.

Your life is a work of art, and in the end, the underlying theme of great art is bravery and hope and love.

I personally don't care for abstract art. I have always felt, 'To each his own.' There's art out there for everybody.

I was a very un-literary child, which might reassure parents with kids who don't read.

I really don't know what's good or bad art because all the art I like people tell me is tasteless.

The art of avoiding extremes is an art that is drawn on the canvas of maturity and painted with the abstract strokes of many experiences.

The first epics were intended for recitation; the literary epic is meant to be read.

Every literary critic believes he will outwit history and have the last word.

I still believe that the best art - be it music, comedy, painting, etc. - is the art that hasn't been asked for, or is expected.

As I said earlier, there are no writers who could create a literary vision of the new reality.

One has to choose a word in English. If you want to be eligible for a literary prize you have to designate it as something.

You don't have to make something that people call art. Living is an artistic activity, there is an art to getting through the day.

Historians are the consummate hairdressers of the literary world: cooing in public, catty in private.

Conceptual art became the liberating idea that gave the art of the next 40 years its real impetus.