I think the great artists, especially in literature, have…

I think the great artists (..) have always thought with the heart.

— Douglas Sirk

I've always liked playing with somebody else and collaborating, just to get out of my own head all the time. Everybody does, but artists…

— Natalie Prass

The record companies really do conspire against the artists. Especially the black artists

— Michael Jackson

Contact with like-minded painters - a group means a great deal to me: nothing comes in isolation. We have worked out our ideas largely…

— Gerhard Richter

Much good art got made while money ruled; I like a lot of it, and hardship and poverty aren't virtues. The good news is…

— Jerry Saltz

“We've inherited many ideas about writing that emerged in the eighteenth century, especially an interest in literature as both an expression and an exploration…

— James Shapiro

Literature makes history come to life. It is maybe the most accurate depiction of history, especially literature that was written in the time period…

— Amy Harmon

I think art, especially literature, has the particular power to immerse the viewer or reader into another world. This is especially powerful in literature,…

— Jesmyn Ward

I think the best science fiction, especially literature, is political in nature and is often an allegory about something problematic in our world, and…

— Simon Kinberg

I think that's an important part of art in general. Especially in literature, in stories, we play with eventualities that may put us through…

— Brian Boyd

As I grew up, I was interested in other areas, too, especially literature. It became a major love of mine. Later, it became a…

— Tom Glazer

We have devoted ourselves to the government and extension of the Church, and, among other objects, we have conceived it to be our duty…

— Pope Leo X

Iliad by Homer is one of the great stories in literature. And I thought its themes really resonated today, whether that was my projection…

— Brad Pitt

The appeal of reading, she thought, lay in its indifference: there was something undeferring about literature. Books did not care who was reading them…

— Alan Bennett

I'd studied English literature and American history, but the English literature, which I thought was going to be helpful to me in an immediate…

— Lynne Tillman