Here lies the sense of literary creation to portray…

“I think that here lies the sense of literary creation: to portray ordinary objects as they will be reflected in the kindly mirrors of…

— Vladimir Nabokov

“The sense of literary creation is to portray ordinary objects as they will be reflected in the kindly mirrors of future times; to find…

— Vladimir Nabokov

Quit trying to find beautiful objects to photograph. Find the ordinary objects so you can transform it by photographing it.

— Morley Baer

“In order to have original, uncommon, and perhaps even immortal thoughts, it is enough to estrange oneself so fully from the world of things…

— Arthur Schopenhaur

I look to everyday magic in art to remember how to live: how to estrange and vivify ordinary objects and beings. So little, really,…

— Noy Holland

“Magritte presents ordinary objects in impossible contexts. He challenges us to our place in relation to the world: our own humanity.”

— Liz Rideal

For example, John Law's Mississippi Company venture printed shares, and the money had gone up in smoke when it had been inscribed objects. The…

— Marina Warner

“Revelation is a literary work composed with astonishing care and skill. We should certainly not doubt that John had remarkable visionary experiences, but he…

— Richard Bauckham

“Indeed, the Bible has been cast adrift from its moorings and left to float on a sea of modern relativity. The “play” of meanings…

— Grant R. Osborne

“Reading is a privileged pleasure because each of us enjoys it, quite complexly, in ways not replicable by anyone else. But there is enough…

— Robert Alter

“I have always thought that art is not a category, not a realm covering innumerable concepts and derivative phenomena, but that, on the contrary,…

— Boris Pasternak

There is an incompatibility between literary creation and political activity.

— Mario Vargas Llosa

There's literary creation and literary business. When I first got something accepted, it gave my life a validation it didn't otherwise have.

— Raymond Carver

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…

— Boris Pasternak

“It was only much later that he was made flesh and blood [in the Gospels] on paper. Thus Christ was created as a literary…

— Paul Louis Couchoud