Art Quote by Fred Kaplan

Reading Edmund Morris's 'Colonel Roosevelt' is a rewarding journey, as it must also have been for its author, who concludes his three-volume saga begun…

— Fred Kaplan

“In my opinion the best writer of historical novels. He makes you feel, smell, see every thing he describes in all his books. He…

— Edward Rutherfurd

One of my favorite modern American authors is Denis Johnson. I'm deeply inspired by all of his work - I rip him off constantly.

— Conor Oberst

I enjoyed reading all the classic authors like Isaac Asimov and Bradbury.

— William Shatner

My father loved biographies. He loved the true tales of interesting people that were shaping our culture. I get why he dug Vanity Fair.…

— Abigail Spencer

I mainly read histories and biographies, but I'm also a big fan of Graham Swift and Thomas Hardy.

— Ben Elliot

“We should be familiar with the great histories, the great biographies. We should be familiar with the great success stories, the great love stories,…

— Sterling W. Sill

I greatly enjoyed Tom Reiss's The Orientalist, for its mingled scholarship and sleuthing, and for so elegantly solving the puzzle of one of the…

— Paul Theroux

“Whenever I listen to an artist or an art historian I'm struck by how much they see and how much they know --and how…

— William Knowlton Zinsser

“I found out after reading quite a lot of it that it is not rated very high. He has a very descriptive way of…

— Wilkie Collins

Great writing can be done in biography, history, art.

— V. S. Naipaul

I didn't think much about Marsden Hartley until very recently, but Gertrude Stein found him to be the best American painter in Europe at…

— Robert Indiana