Aesthetics Quote by Harold Bloom

“For me a work of fiction exists only insofar as it affords me what I shall bluntly call aesthetic bliss, that is a sense…

— Vladimir Nabokov

“I had never known the pleasure of reading, of exploring the recesses of the soul, of letting myself be carried away by imagination, beauty,…

— Carlos Ruiz Zafón

“I find myself drawn to literature more now than in the past; not the individual works as much as the idea of literature—the heroic…

— Ruth Ozeki

“Literature is one kind of aesthetic politics.”

— Md. Mujib Ullah

“A body of work, therefore, reveals the intellectual and emotional progress of the writer, and is a map of his soul. It's both terrifying…

— Dean Koontz

“I have found that a writer is formed not so much by their experiences but by the way in which they view and capture…

— H Raven Rose

“Man lives in the midst of images. Literature offers him a critical image of himself.”

— Jean-Paul Sartre

“As, in useful art, so far as it is useful, the work must be strictly subordinated to the laws of Nature, so as to…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“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

“What we encounter in works of art and philosophy are objective versions of our own pains and struggles, evoked and defined in sound, language…

— Alain de Botton

“Literature is the aesthetic exploitation of language”

— Anthony Burgess

“Read as little as possible in the way of aesthetics and criticism - it will either be partisan views, fossilized and made meaningless in…

— Rainer Maria Rilke