Art Quote by George Steiner

“Novalis and Dostoyevsky, awaited me just as do the mother, or the wife, the children, maids, dogs and cats in the case of more…

— Hermann Hesse

“Dostoyevsky was the sum of all these contradictions which either paralyze a man or lead him to the heights.”

— Henry Miller

“I'm no Dostoevsky - I just love to write”

— Ian Colquhoun

“Dostoyevsky, who was a believer, wrote that the “death of a single infant calls into question the existence of God.”1”

— John Ortberg Jr

“In Dostoevsky there were things unbelievable and not to be believed, but some so true they changed you as you read them; frailty and…

— Ernest Hemingway

When you started looking at the life of Tolstoy, there was so much passion and anger and drama surrounding him.

— Elif Batuman

“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

Dostoevsky preaches the morality of the pariah, the morality of the slave.

— Georg Brandes

“I am a master of fiction. I am also the greatest crime writer who ever lived. I am to the crime novel in specific…

— James Ellroy

“The Aristocrat The Devil is a gentleman, and asks you down to stay At his little place at What'sitsname (it isn't far away). They…

— G.K. Chesterton

“The Book of Job depicted the discovery of the devil in deity.”

— Charlotte Spivack

“Art is bad when ‘you see the intent and get put off.’ (Goethe) In Tolstoy one is unaware of the intent, and sees only…

— Joel Carmichael