Art Quote by James W. Sire

“The novelist is condemned to wander all his life. Homeless and blind like Oedipus he wanders until death. And so let us protect the…

— Roman Payne

“We shed as we pick up, like travelers who must carry everything in their arms, and what we let fall will be picked up…

— Tom Stoppard

“Publishing makes Oedipus Rex look like a play about distant cousins.”

— Reed Farrel Coleman

“Art is long and life is brief and mortality looms.”

— Margaret Atwood

“Art is long and life is short.”

— Christopher Bram

“...much of poetry in the making is the fiddle with a few items. You lay a word against another and wait. You try another…

— Craig Raine

“They no longer wanted to entice anyone; all they wanted was to catch a glimpse for as long as possible of the reflected glory…

— Franz Kafka

“Now, as never before, it was clear to him that art is always, ceaselessly, occupied with two things. It constantly reflects on death and…

— Boris Pasternak

Sophocles said he drew men as they ought to be, and Euripides as they were.

— Aristotle

“I don’t know how to cure the source-itis except to tell you that I can discover a good many possible sources myself for Wise…

— Flannery O'Connor

“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

“Life is short, art is infinite.”

— Oscar Wilde