Art Quote by Elizabeth Hardwick

Gertrude Stein was masterly in making nothing happen very slowly

— Clifton Fadiman

[Gertrude Stein] really needed someone like Virgil Thomson, whom she respected, to sit on her a bit and make her devise some plot.

— James Laughlin

“Be courageous requires not only, on the one hand, a watchful mind; it requires, on the other hand, also, the indispensable strong will to…

— Sir Kristian Goldmund Aumann

“A miniaturist creates his art by heeding his conscience and by obeying the principles in which he believes, fearing nothing. he pays no attention…

— Orhan Pamuk

“there are quiet victories and struggles, great sacrifices of self, and noble acts of heroism, in it - even in many of its apparent…

— Charles Dickens

[On Gertrude Stein's Making of Americans:] I doubt if all the people who should read it will read it for a great while yet,…

— Katherine Anne Porter

“Works of art are of an infinite solitude, and no means of approach is so useless as criticism.”

— Rainer Maria Rilke

“What is art if not a concentrated and impassioned effort to make something with the little we have, the little we see?”

— Andre Dubus

[Contemporary writer] could be a kind of [Samuel] Beckett who would not be felt to be totally committed to despair.

— Jean-Paul Sartre

Gertrude Stein really thought of Hemingway as frail. He almost married Stein.

— Leslie Fiedler

“Contrary to the current presumption, if there is any man who has no right to solitude, it is the artist. Art cannot be a…

— Albert Camus

“Works of art are infinitely solitary and nothing is less likely to reach them than criticism. Only love can grasp them and hold them…

— Rainer Maria Rilke