Art Quote by Jane Smiley

Are you really going to see Lewis? One of the few people it's worth getting excited over, I think. I know he is a…

— Ruth Pitter

I can't bear art that you can walk round and admire. A book should be either a bandit or a rebel or a man…

— Anonymous

I hope to be remembered for writing books about social justice that also have enough aesthetic value to endure as works of literature.

— Jonathan Kozol

Joe Wright is incredible and I'm a huge admirer of his work in general, but specifically his aesthetics and poeticism.

— Bryce Dallas Howard

When the artist is alive in any person, whatever his kind of work may be, he becomes an inventive, searching, daring, self-expressive creature. He…

— Robert Henri

As a young artist working in multiple mediums, the work and especially the writings of artist Laszlo Moholy-Nagy were very important to me.

— Miranda July

Art was something that I was really interested in, probably more so than writing or anything else.

— Robert Barry

What art and books do at their best is investigate why we are the way we are.

— Philipp Meyer

Art flourishes where there is a sense of adventure.

— Alfred North Whitehead

I have some art, but I am a hobbyist. I would not consider myself an expert but in the course of writing this novel…

— Nicholas Sparks

I think for Lev [Grossman], C. S. Lewis was a huge inspiration from his childhood. I know that Brideshead Revisited is a book that…

— Hale Appleman

An imaginative book renders us much more service at first, by stimulating us through its tropes, than afterward, when we arrive atthe precise sense…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson