Art Quote by Leo Tolstoy

“Men... have had the vanity to pretend that the world creation was made for them, whilst in reality the whole creation does not suspect…

— Camille Flammarion

“Men live by embedding themselves in ongoing systems of illusion. Religion. Patriotism. Economics. Fashion. That sort of thing.”

— Tom Robbins

“Representation of the world, like the world itself, is the work of men; they describe it from their own point of view, which they…

— Simone de Beauvoir

“Handsome, fictional men were so much easier to stomach then real life ones.”

— Tarryn Fisher

“The fictitious men in romance novels are as fake and imaginary as vampires. They're not real.”

— Oliver Markus Malloy

“We started out making men in about the state of mind which I suppose created them in the first place -- we had run…

— Shirley Jackson

“Perhaps the novel is a more perfect life and reality, which God creates through us. Perhaps we live only to create it. It seems…

— Fernando Pessoa

“No man [...] can be so stupid to deny that all men naturally were born free, being the image and resemblance of God himself.”

— John Milton

“The designs of men are notoriously subservient to happenstance, hesitation, and haste; but”

— Amor Towles

“What men do is shaped by what they believe they can do.”

— J.M. Roberts

“In many ways an artistic nature unfits a man for a practical existence.”

— Robert Louis Stevenson

“If men would steadily observe realities only, and not allow themselves to be deluded, life, to compare it with such things as we know,…

— Henry David Thoreau