Art Quote by Alexander Solzhenitsyn

The sole substitute for an experience which we have not ourselves lived through is art and literature.

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

The one and only substitute for experience which we have not ourselves had is art, literature. We have been given a miraculous faculty: Despite…

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

“The sole substitute for an experience we have not ourselves lived through is art and literature.”

— Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn

Good literature substitutes for an experience which we have not oursleves lived through.

— Alexander Solzhenitsyn

Whether our work is art or science or the daily work of society, it is only the form in which we explore our experience…

— Jacob Bronowski

The arts enable us to have experience we can have from no other source and through such experience to discover the range and variety…

— Elliot W. Eisner

Just as there is no substitute for original works of art, there is no substitute for the world of direct sensual experience.

— Paul Mellon

Art, well good art at least, takes you to a place you go during the experience of it, and then after you experience it…

— Nile Rodgers

We live through books; we have adventures in them, we lead alternative lives through them. We expand our memories through them. And that sometimes…

— Anthony Doerr

Art is a higher type of knowledge than experience.

— Anonymous

One of the things I could never get accustomed to in my youth was the difference I found between life and literature.

— James Joyce

Writing about art is only useful when it leads to the experience of art.

— Walter Darby Bannard