Art Quote by Aleksandar Hemon

“Visual and performing artists produce art that lives in the present world. The art of the writer exists in another dimension. Through strings of…

— Mindie Burgoyne

“Reality has always attracted me like a magnet, tortured and hypnotized me, and I wanted to capture it on paper. So I immediately appropriated…

— Svetlana Alexievich

“I think all artists struggle to represent the geometry of life in their own way, just like writers deal with archetypes. There are only…

— Henry Mosquera

“When you talk to an author or an artist, you’re only ever getting half the story. We are crafting narratives for you. We are…

— Phoebe North

Writers spend too much time among dead things. I thought that was profound and actually true, that you're trying to pump life into something…

— Martin Amis

“Writers need their writing; they need their imaginary worlds in order to find piece in, or make sense of, the real world.”

— Terry Brooks

Fiction seeks to represent human experience as it is lived and as it reverberates in our hopes, fears, dreams, and memories. So much of…

— Varley O'Connor

I'm not a writer, but today I think you have to be everything. As an artist you have an obligation to let people know…

— Ai Weiwei

And all of these writers offer me a greater understanding of what it is to be alive, and that is such an incredible thing…

— PJ Harvey

We live entirely, especially if we are writers, by the imposition of a narrative line upon disparate images, by the 'ideas' with which we…

— Joan Didion

As artists we have an extraordinary and rare privilege to tell the stories of our people, our land, our culture. They grip us, tear…

— Mena Massoud

All humans are storytellers with their own unique point of view. When we understand this, we no longer feel the need to impose our…

— Miguel Angel Ruiz