The sole substitute for an experience which we have not ourselves lived through is art and literature. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
There can be no freedom in art and literature where the government determines who shall create them. — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
The cinema occupies an important place in the overall development of art and literature. — Kim Jong Il Copy Share Image
“What they achieved in art and literature is familiar to everybody, but what they did in the purely intellectual realm is even… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The contemporary thing in art and literature is the thing which doesn't make enough difference to the people of that generation so… — Gertrude Stein Copy Share Image
“In other countries, art and literature are left to a lot of shabby bums living in attics and feeding on booze and… — James Thurber Copy Share Image
The general history of art and literature shows that the highest achievements of the human mind are, as a rule, not favourably… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
Encourage good music and art and literature in your homes. Homes that have a spirit of refinement and beauty will bless the… — Ezra Taft Benson Copy Share Image
Works of art and literature should promote humans to reflection. A revolutionary perspective should be evoked and a changing societal awakening formulated… — Vellupillai Pirapakaran Copy Share Image
Only when I make movements away from the tribe of indie art and literature. Maybe that's something important for me to keep… — Lidia Yuknavitch Copy Share Image
“Energy was the ruling theme of Victorian science, as machines increasingly harnessed the forces of nature to do man's work. The concept… — Jeremy Campbell Copy Share Image
I would say if you are familiar with our history and the history of our art and literature that you see a… — Gil Scott-Heron Copy Share Image
“Look at it this way: if you were convinced that the world had forgotten how to think and teach, if you believed… — Natalia Sanmartín Fenollera Copy Share Image
“We go eastward to realize history, and study the works of art and literature, retracing the steps of the race; we go… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Internationalism on the other hand admits that spiritual achievements have their roots deep in national life; from this national consciousness art and… — Christian Lous Lange Copy Share Image
Art is humanity's most essential, most universal language. It is not a frill, but a necessary part of communication. The quality of… — Ernest L. Boyer Copy Share Image
“One day after the exams, the teachers sat at their desks correcting papers while the pupils read comics, played chess or cards… — Alasdair Gray Copy Share Image
If history could prove and teach us anything, it would be the private ownership of the means of production as a necessary… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
Art and literature need extreme sociality to a degree that even dolphins don't have. We are the only large mammalian species that… — Brian Boyd Copy Share Image
“As writers we intend to make a difference, to alter people's lives for the greater good. . .this is why we write,… — Lee Gutkind Copy Share Image
I don't really believe in political art. I feel in my heart the purpose of art transcends cultural and class and politics.… — Sean Lennon Copy Share Image
“He accepted the deformity which had made life so hard for him; he knew that it had warped his character, but no… — W. Somerset Maughamset Maugham Copy Share Image
My reason for writing stories is to give myself the satisfaction of visualising more clearly and detailedly and stably the vague, elusive,… — H. P. Lovecraft Copy Share Image
There’s a real question as to what beauty is and why it’s important to us. Many pseudo-philosophers try to answer these questions… — Roger Scruton Copy Share Image
“He lived within himself, nourished by his own substance, like some torpid creature which hibernates in caves. Solitude had reacted upon his… — Joris-Karl Huysmans Copy Share Image
“Our belief is not a belief. Our principles are not a faith. We do not rely solely upon science and reason, because… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“Once, he’d been the Seducer, the Executioner, the High Priest of the Hourglass, the Prince of the Darkness, the High Lord of… — Anne Bishop Copy Share Image
“There are two fundamentally different ways for the strong to bend down to the weak, for the rich to help the poor,… — Max Scheler Copy Share Image
“I presume this is part of your erotic art collection?" she mused out loud. "It is most beautifully done; only look at… — Tracy Anne Warren Copy Share Image
“Except for Christianity, the Nazis reject as Jewish everything which stems from Jewish authors. This condemnation includes the writings of those Jews… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
“Oscar Wilde was born in Dublin, on the 15th October, 1856, so that he is now about twenty-six years of age, but… — Walter Hamilton Copy Share Image
I think our sensibility is not modernist anymore, that is, sensibility of people who are interested in art and literature. — Louis Menand Copy Share Image
My mother was a teacher, and when she wanted to show me art and literature and science, she'd take me to museums,… — David Blaine Copy Share Image
I'm not totally comfortable with the ways in which our culture monetises art and literature. — Sally Rooney Copy Share Image
All of us use art and literature as an escape from time to time, but if it's any good, it has a… — Katherine Paterson Copy Share Image
We will always have more to discover, more to invent, more to understand and that's much closer to art and literature than… — Daniel Tammet Copy Share Image
