Quote by H.P. Lovecraft

What excites and interests the looker-on at life, what the romances and the statues celebrate, and the grim civic monuments remind us of, is…

— William James

And the glory of character is in affronting the horrors of depravity to draw thence new nobilities of power: as Art lives and thrills…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“The celebrated opening image of 'The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock' is another case in point: Let us go then, you and I,…

— Terry Eagleton

“It is well known that great art, great music and great literature can emerge out of great pain. This does not lessen the reality…

— Christopher J.H. Wright

“Almost every artistic nature is born with a revealing connoisseurial tendency that appreciates injustice so long as it results in beauty and applauds, even…

— Thomas Mann

“We maintain, therefore, that the first essential, the life and soul, so to speak, of Tragedy is the Plot; and that the Characters come…

— Aristotle

No themes are so human as those that reflect for us, out of the confusion of life, the close connection of bliss and bale,…

— Henry James

“We are in the Dark to one another's Purposes and Intendments, and there are a thousand Intrigues in our little Matters, which will not…

— Joseph Glanvill

“Music, states of happiness, mythology, faces belaboured by time, certain twilights and certain places try to tell us something, or have said something we…

— Jorge Luis Borges

“Behind every work of art lies the enormous pretension of exhibiting one's vision of the world. If such obvious arrogance is not counterbalanced by…

— Amélie Nothomb

“The boast of heraldry, the pomp of power, And all that beauty, all that wealth e'er gave, Awaits alike the inevitable hour. The paths…

— Thomas Grey

In all great works of fiction, regardless of the grim reality they present, there is an affirmation of life against the transience of that…

— Azar Nafisi