Whatever they are, can Comics be "Art"? Of course they can. The "Art" in a piece is something independent of genre, form,… — Phoebe Gloeckner Copy Share Image
Dostoyevsky wrote of the unconscious as if it were conscious; that is in reality the reason why his characters seem 'pathological', while… — Edwin Muir Copy Share Image
“But, like Shakespeare, I too am often occupied with the pursuit of my creative endeavors and dealing with all aspects of life's… — Bob Dylan Copy Share Image
Reading honest literature makes you love the world. Knowledge and understanding are love. Reading educates our feelings and enhances our sympathy. When… — John Dufresne Copy Share Image
“I gather," he added, "that you've never had much time to study the classics?" "That is so." "Pity. Pity. You've missed a… — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
In its conception the literature prize belongs to days when a writer could still be thought of as, by virtue of his… — J. M. Coetzee Copy Share Image
A principal aim of education is to give students a taste for literature, for the books of life and power, and to… — John Lancaster Spalding Copy Share Image
In any period it is upon a very small minority that the discerning appreciation of art and literature depends ... They are… — F. R. Leavis Copy Share Image
The great subversive works of children's literature suggest that there are other views of human life besides those of the shopping mall… — Alison Lurie Copy Share Image
“There is something magical to me about literature and fiction and I think it can do things not only that pop culture… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
In an age when other fantastically speedy, widespread media are triumphing, and running the risk of flattening all communication onto a single,… — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
The truth of literature and art has always been granted (if it was granted at all) as one of a "higher" order,… — Herbert Marcuse Copy Share Image
As a man has no right to kill one of his children if it is diseased or insane, so a man who… — John Millington Synge Copy Share Image
Science fiction is the branch of literature that deals with the effects of change on people in the real world as it… — James Gunn Copy Share Image
Is a lifelong student of the world's wisdom literature, it is my duty to inform students that ridding the world of evil… — David James Duncan Copy Share Image
In fact I don't think of literature, or music, or any art form as having a nationality. Where you're born is simply… — Carlos Ruiz Zafon Copy Share Image
For a long time I found the celebrities of modern painting and poetry ridiculous. I loved absurd pictures, fanlights, stage scenery, mountebanks… — Arthur Rimbaud Copy Share Image
It's not all bad. Heightened self-consciousness, apartness, an inability to join in, physical shame and self-loathingthey are not all bad. Those devils… — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
I think it's a very old and deep-seated double standard that holds that when a man writes about family and feelings, it's… — Jennifer Weiner Copy Share Image
“A lot of the people who read a bestselling novel, for example, do not read much other fiction. By contrast, the audience… — The Economist Copy Share Image
There had been observed in this country certain streams of influence which are causing a marked deterioration in our literature, amusements, and… — Henry Ford Copy Share Image
Here is a writer possessing the greatest talent: that of fully inhabiting the lives of others. Spargo conjures up these two as… — Andrew Sean Greer Copy Share Image
“The truth is, everyone likes to look down on someone. If your favorites are all avant-garde writers who throw in Sanskrit and… — Brent weeks Copy Share Image
Because subjects like literature and art history have no obvious material pay-off, they tend to attract those who look askance at capitalist… — Terry Eagleton Copy Share Image
Most of the great works of juvenile literature are subversive in one way or another: they express ideas and emotions not generally… — Alison Lurie Copy Share Image
“It is not certain whether the effects of totalitarianism upon verse need be so deadly as its effects on prose. There is… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
If you read some of the recent literature, there is no such thing as whiteness. But we made it up. Not my… — Gregg Popovich Copy Share Image
To make a love story, you need a couple of young people, but to reflect on the nature of love, you're better… — James Buchan Copy Share Image
“They were...no ordinary group, gathering together to kill an evening, to seek refuge from critical husbands and demanding children while idly discussing… — Gloria Goldreich Copy Share Image
I just totally do not believe in this sort of Bart Simpson character who infects so much of our literature and film… — David Small Copy Share Image
The man of understanding can no more sit quiet and resigned while his country lets its literature decay, and lets good writing… — Ezra Pound Copy Share Image
Have been reading "Genesis" several Sundays, not as a Christian reads for "spiritual consolation," "instruction," etc., not as aninfidel reads to carp… — Rutherford B. Hayes Copy Share Image
Theater roles are written by the great masters. The greatest literature that you can possibly know are the theater roles like King… — Christopher Plummer Copy Share Image
“Not thou alone, but all humanity doth in its progress fable emulate. Whence came thy rocket-ships and submarine if not from Nautilus,… — Alan Moore Copy Share Image
I suppose I've always been attracted to this sort of outsider in general - in literature, in music, politics, whatever - and… — Cillian Murphy Copy Share Image
All truths are erroneous. This is the very essence of the dialectical process: today's truths become errors tomorrow; there is no final… — Yevgeny Zamyatin Copy Share Image
Have no regrets. Every relationship leads you to where you're meant to be. Learn to be comfortable with being alone. Learn to… — Nicole Kidman Copy Share Image
One of the reasons I always come back to representations of loneliness in plays, films, and literature is that they give us… — Thomas L. Dumm Copy Share Image
If the most significant characteristic of man is the complex of biological needs he shares with all members of his species, then… — W. H. Auden Copy Share Image
With no other privilege than that of sympathy and sincere good wishes, I would address an affectionate exhortation to the youthful literati,… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image