Acceptance Quote by Jimenez Lai

Literature, at least good literature, is science tempered with the blood of art. Like architecture or music.

— Carlos Ruiz Zafon

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

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

Literature often gets taught nowadays as a record of the sins and shortcomings of the past. I see literature and the arts very differently:…

— Brian Boyd

You can see the meaning of the statement that "Literature is a living art" most easily and clearly, perhaps, by contrasting Science and Art…

— Arthur Quiller-Couch

I don't feel like literature has the power to alienate. I think that's something people feel if they don't connect with a work of…

— Eleanor Catton

Literature and the arts are also criticism in a more particular and practical sense. They embody an expository reflection on, a value judgement of,…

— George Steiner

Art is just as comprehensible as science, but in its own terms.

— Susanne Katherina Langer

Literature is painting, architecture, and music.

— Yevgeny Zamyatin

A lot of us have all sorts of ideas, and we select some rather than others and give expression to those... and some works…

— Rupert Sheldrake

Art, like science, progresses, and to me it's bizarre that a lot of acclaimed and popular and respectable books are not advancing the art…

— David Shields

Art and science work in quite different ways: agreed. But, bad as it may sound, I have to admit that I cannot get along…

— Bertolt Brecht