Art Quote by Clyde Brion Davis

“Art is not a horse race. Literature is not the Olympics. The hell with The Great American Novel. We have all the great novels…

— Ursula K. Le Guin

“Socially, politically, economically, militarily, culturally, racially, sexually, demographically, even mythologically, World War II was the crucible that forged modern America. It was the transforming…

— Haynes Johnson

“but the fact is that New York is as much a myth as a place, and because we all participate in that fiction, we…

— Siri Hustvedt

First of all, the novel should be a critique of the novels that have come before it in a language that broadens the audience…

— Kiese Laymon

The New York book was a visual diary and it was also kind of personal newspaper. I wanted it to look like the news.…

— William Klein

“I have often been mildly amused when I think that the great American novel was not written about New England or Chicago. It was…

— James A. Michener

“Art, though, is never the voice of a country; it is an even more precious thing, the voice of the individual, doing its best…

— Eudora Welty

“I came to New York because I was fleeing from the double-wide baby stroller, from the culture of respectability of the bourgeois suburban middle…

— Junot Díaz

American art ought to be monumental, in keeping with American life.

— Gutzon Borglum

The greatest work of art about New York? The question seems nebulous. The city's magic and majesty are distilled in the photographs of Alfred…

— Jerry Saltz

I just saw a recent television program about art, and it was saying how from the end of the Second World War, so much…

— Robert Wyatt

“To Europe she was America. To America she was the gateway to the earth. But to tell the story of New York would be…

— H.G. Wells