Art Quote by Charles Caleb Colton

You know that sickening feeling of inadequacy and over-exposure you feel when you look upon your own empurpled prose? Relax into the awareness that…

— Will Self

Art is a mediator of the unspeakable.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“I understand that it’s disheartening to pour effort and money into a work of art and find that others do not value it with…

— Heidi Cullinan

Scholars look for final truths they will never find. Creative writers concern themselves with possibilities that are always there to the receptive.

— Richard Hugo

Reading, I had learned, was as creative a process as writing, sometimes more so. When we read of the dying rays of the setting…

— Jasper Fforde

The existence of good bad literature—the fact that one can be amused or excited or even moved by a book that one's intellect simply…

— George Orwell

“In a world where nearly everything that passes for art is tinny and commercial and often, in addition, hollow and academic, I argue--by reason…

— John Champlin Gardner Jr

“Art is made by those who consider themselves to have failed at whatever isn’t art. And of course it is loved as consolation, or…

— Howard Jacobson

A lot of praise is given to very mediocre work. Critics have lost their taste, hearing, and eyesight.

— Steven Berkoff

In the right hands, literature is not resorted to as a consolation, and by the broken and decayed, but as a decalogue.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

I don't think we should be deceived that art is such a moral thing.

— Svetlana Alexievich

Writers are greatly respected. The intelligent public is wonderfully patient with them, continues to read them, and endures disappointment after disappointment, waiting to hear…

— Saul Bellow