Art Quote by Chinua Achebe

“Ideally, art would give us the answers that other people don't. This might even be one of the main points of literature: to tell…

— Alain de Botton

I've always taken the view that works of art are not just things that we enjoy. They can convey truths about the world more…

— Roger Scruton

“I have always thought that art is not a category, not a realm covering innumerable concepts and derivative phenomena, but that, on the contrary,…

— Boris Pasternak

But then people don't read literature in order to understand; they read it because they want to re-live the feelings and sensations which they…

— Aldous Huxley

Art is not only about something; it is something. A work of art is a thing in the world, not just a text or…

— Susan Sontag

Literature and art are one of a number of relationships I have with the world. Like you have relationships with your friends and a…

— Sheila Heti

A work of art enters life very much like another human being - complicated, loaded with overtones and meaning, mysterious, enticing, obsessive, and beautiful.…

— Budd Hopkins

Literature is painting, architecture, and music.

— Yevgeny Zamyatin

What's the point of art, of any art, if it doesn't let us see with a little bit of objectivity where we are?

— Ali Smith

It just fascinates me, those private mechanisms that we use to make sense of the world - whether they have to do with the…

— Leni Zumas

I just love what art can do and what it means for us; that it can cross barriers. It can speak to us across…

— Travis Knight

I don't feel like literature has the power to alienate. I think that's something people feel if they don't connect with a work of…

— Eleanor Catton