Architecture Quote by Carlos Ruiz Zafon

Literature is painting, architecture, and music.

— Yevgeny Zamyatin

You can see the meaning of the statement that "Literature is a living art" most easily and clearly, perhaps, by contrasting Science and Art…

— Arthur Quiller-Couch

Unlike sciences, literature as art relies on societal acceptance of a certain vocabulary.

— Jimenez Lai

Ultimately, literature is nothing but carpentry. With both you are working with reality, a material just as hard as wood.

— Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Literature usually begets literature.

— Susan Sontag

“But the thing about Literature is, well, basically it encapsulates all the disciplines - it's history, philosophy, politics, sexual politics, sociology, psychology, linguistics, science.…

— David Nicholls

Literature often gets taught nowadays as a record of the sins and shortcomings of the past. I see literature and the arts very differently:…

— Brian Boyd

Literature is a beautiful way of keeping the imagination alive, of visiting worlds you would never have time to in your day-to-day life. It…

— Abraham Verghese

Literature and the arts are also criticism in a more particular and practical sense. They embody an expository reflection on, a value judgement of,…

— George Steiner

Literature is not a picture of life, but is a separate experience with its own kind of flow and enhancement.

— William Stafford

I do not actually see how art, literature can be anything other that being in that domain of trying to tell us, trying to…

— Chinua Achebe

For me, literature is the daughter of music: a bit heavy and more level headed than its mother. Literature submits to the same principles…

— Dumitru Tepeneag