Art Quote by Ellen Glasgow

“The whole point is that writing has a pattern and life hasn't. Life is so untidy. Art is so short and life so long.…

— Elizabeth Taylor

A novel is not just a work of art: It is somehow a work of life as well.

— George P Elliott

If any art form can accommodate contemporary culture, it's the novel. It's so malleable - it can incorporate essays, poetry, film. Maybe the challenge…

— Don DeLillo

“Art does not surpass nature but perfects it.”

— Cervantes

For the book to succeed, it has to have equal parts ugliness and beauty, counterpoints adding up to emotional complexity. To me, there's a…

— Joshua Mohr

Art not only imitates nature, but also completes its deficiencies.

— Aristotle

A work of art is the unique result of a unique temperament. Its beauty comes from the fact that the author is what he…

— Oscar Wilde

“After all, what is art if not a true image and a criterion for the perfection of the human soul?”

— Dörthe Binkert

Works of Art can only be produc'd in Perfection where the Man is either in Affluence or is Above the Care of it.

— William Blake

A work of art is full of perhapses and maybesos. Where the perhapses are found, something has to be done about it. And since…

— John Marin

At some point, I'm just of the mind that no art is perfect, and it shouldn't be perfect. I think it's beautiful in its…

— Colman Domingo

Art is the perfection of nature, ... nature is the art of God.

— Thomas Browne