Art Quote by Katherine Dunn

“a subterranean murmur. It may sound like one of the many separate voices that make up the sounds of a creek. Or it may…

— Anne Lamott

The cave is a dark, shadowy place. It's a place that's very close and yet distant at the same time, and it's a place…

— Gerald Stern

“The powdery sand caves under his weight and his bare feet sink at once marking the beach with shallow potholes”

— Stephanie Fleshman

Where you stumble, there lies your treasure. The very cave you are afraid to enter turns out to be the source of what you…

— Joseph Campbell

“For one crazy moment he had the notion of a vanished tribe of librarians, lost in the deep underground caverns of the Bodleian, a…

— Lavie Tidhar

“The cave sits tucked deep within the mass of rocks that sprout like moles from the forest floor.”

— Jennifer M Zeiger

“There was a deceptive tangling of alleys that gave the impression of a map that shifted behind you, gargoyles tiptoeing away, stones like puzzle…

— Laini Taylor

“That sand into which we bury ourselves in order not to see, is formed of words…and it is true that words, their labyrinths, the…

— Georges Bataille

“When I as reading and writing, I was in that exhilarating place where the life of the imagination is more real than the tiles…

— Deborah Lawrenson

“There were stories that the tunnels went for miles. There were monsters down there, blind reptiles and insects that had never seen the light,…

— Denis Johnson

The wretched Artist himself is alternatively the lowest worm that ever crawled when no fire is in him; or the loftiest God that ever…

— Caitlin Thomas

“There exists a subterranean world where pathological fantasies disguised as ideas are churned out by crooks and half-educated fanatics [notably the lower clergy] for…

— Martin Amis