Art Quote by Isaac Bashevis Singer

The existence of good bad literature—the fact that one can be amused or excited or even moved by a book that one's intellect simply…

— George Orwell

Literature is the noblest of all the arts. Music dies on the air, or at best exists only as a memory; oratory ceases with…

— Elbert Hubbard

“Reading is perpetual nourishment, never a vehicle for vanity. Intellectuals, in general, are braggarts, perhaps because they do not possess a true interior landscape.…

— Anonymous

When a book, any sort of book, reaches a certain intensity of artistic performance it becomes literature.

— Raymond Chandler

When it comes to performing and entertaining, the art removes itself from the writing.

— Scott Avett

When a book, any sort of book, reaches a certain intensity of artistic performance, it becomes literature. That intensity may be a matter of…

— Raymond Chandler

What is art is not likely to be decided for decades or longer after the work has been producedand then is often redecidedso we…

— Richard Condon

Literature is painting, architecture, and music.

— Yevgeny Zamyatin

I do not actually see how art, literature can be anything other that being in that domain of trying to tell us, trying to…

— Chinua Achebe

But then people don't read literature in order to understand; they read it because they want to re-live the feelings and sensations which they…

— Aldous Huxley

To be sure an artist wishes to raise his standard intellectually as much as possible, but the man must remain in obscurity. Pleasure must…

— Paul Cezanne

The moment that an artist takes notice of what other people want, and tries to supply the demand, he ceases to be an artist.

— Oscar Wilde