Art Quote by Harold Bloom

“If a work of art is rich and vital and complete, those who have artistic instincts will see its beauty, and those to whom…

— Oscar Wilde

“Stephen King: If you intend to write as truthfully as you can, your days as a member of polite society are numbered”

— Afiena Kamminga

“My introduction, implicitly echoing Oscar Wilde's remark that all bad poetry is sincere, grants the benign social decency of [Stephen] King's fictions.”

— Harold Bloom

“Art has a noble task: to educate man. That's why the writer's part in our society is a most responsible one. The writers are…

— slawomir mrozek

Perhaps the artist who seeks dignity above all in his 'historia', ought to represent very few figures; for as paucity of words imparts majesty…

— Leon Battista Alberti

“Art has no influence upon action. It annihilates the desire to act. It is superbly sterile. The books that the world calls immoral are…

— Oscar Wilde

“Our job, then, is two-fold: to focus on our own failings as writers. But also to speak more forcefully as advocates for literature. Books…

— Steve Almond

“All of that art-for-art’s-sake stuff is BS,” she declares. “What are these people talking about? Are you really telling me that Shakespeare and Aeschylus…

— Toni Morrison

“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

“The age old idea of human dignity comes to apply even to the indigent, even to the slaves, even to immigrants, now recently even…

— John Gardner

“The emotion of art is impersonal. And the poet cannot reach this impersonality without surrendering himself wholly to the work to be done. And…

— T S Eliot

“At the point in his lecture where he was saying that the representative element in a work of art is always irrelevant, that for…

— Joy Williams