Art Quote by Etgar Keret

Whatever I was writing at the time, I knew there was no market for it and never would be, because there’s never a market…

— Nell Zink

“That’s what comes of overthinking things. On a more pragmatic level, we do things simply because we do them. I wrote this book because…

— Justin Wetch

In art, in taste, in life, in speech, you decide from feeling, and not from reason ... If we were obliged to enter into…

— William Hazlitt

Writing about art is only useful when it leads to the experience of art.

— Walter Darby Bannard

Philosophy can forsake too easily the details of experience… many writers and painters have demonstrated that thinking long about what art is or ought…

— Robert Adams

I continue to write essays about art. The visual is always part of my work, and it gives me immense pleasure to make up…

— Siri Hustvedt

A key to my thinking has always been the almost fanatical belief that what I was engaged in was a literary art form. That…

— Will Eisner

Writing is my job. I don't think of it as art.

— Isabel Allende

“Contemplating a purported work of art is a social activity. Either you have a rewarding time, or you don't. You don't have to say…

— Kurt Vonnegut

Well, everything surprises me about the writing process because illustrating comes much more naturally to me than writing does.

— Brian Selznick

I am pragmatic. That which works, works, and theory can go screw itself. However, my pragmatism also extends to maintainability, which is why I…

— Linus Torvalds

I refuse to confide and don't like it when people write about art.

— Balthus