Art Quote by George Steiner

“If you read every poem in every anthology of Greek poetry, you wouldn't read one poem in which a character of the woman who's…

— Kathy Acker

“With women poets we look at or into, but not up at, sacred things; we unlearn submission.”

— Alicia Ostriker

Women's studies needed a syllabus and so invented a canon overnight. It puffed up clunky, mundane contemporary women authors into Oz-like, skywriting dirigibles. Our…

— Camille Paglia

“With a little more time, patience, and hard work, and above all with a more sensitive taste for the formal aspects of arts, he…

— Gustave Flaubert

“The enthusiasm of a woman's love is even beyond the biographer's. To her, the hand-writing itself, independent of any thing it may convey, is…

— Jane Austen

“I'll admit that I was surprised to see two decades of film journalism canonized in the same church as Lincoln, Thoreau, Emerson, Walt Whitman,…

— Anonymous

“For whatever the era, nationality, gender and genre; whether realistic, traditional, fabulist, historical, fantasist, minimalist, crossover, the writer worthy of the literary arts and…

— Gregorio C. Brillantes

“People wandered in for books and conversation. They brought their stories to her, some bound, and some known by heart. She recognized some of…

— Louise Penny

“One woman is a tiny divine spark in a timeless sisterhood tapestry collective; All of us are Wild Women.”

— Jan Porter

“Thus it had come about that she had read far more fiction, and far more poetry, those two sanctuaries of the lonely, than most…

— John Fowles

“The whole Epistle is so methodical, that even its very beginning is   framed according to the rules of art.”

— John Calvin

“Meanwhile Canon Leigh in his study did not know what on earth he ought to do; and when he remembered that he had four…

— Elizabeth Goudge