Art Quote by Leslie Fiedler

The novel is perhaps the highest art form because it so closely resembles life: it is about human relationships. It's technique, page by page,…

— Joyce Carol Oates

A novel is not just a work of art: It is somehow a work of life as well.

— George P Elliott

If any art form can accommodate contemporary culture, it's the novel. It's so malleable - it can incorporate essays, poetry, film. Maybe the challenge…

— Don DeLillo

Fundamentally, all art is about human beings. You're always showing larger moral questions through the smaller moral, philosophical, or political choices through one character…

— Philipp Meyer

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

Once we know the plot and its surprises, we can appreciate a book's artistry without the usual confusion and sap flow of emotion, content…

— Michael Dirda

It once occured to me that literature - all art really - is either talking to people about God, or talking to God about…

— Paul Quarrington

Art is amoral, whether we accept this or not; it does not take sides. The finest fictions are cold at heart.

— John Banville

“I have always thought that art is not a category, not a realm covering innumerable concepts and derivative phenomena, but that, on the contrary,…

— Boris Pasternak

“In truth, nothing could be more opposed to the purely aesthetic interpretation and justification of the world which are taught in this book than…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

For the book to succeed, it has to have equal parts ugliness and beauty, counterpoints adding up to emotional complexity. To me, there's a…

— Joshua Mohr

... the novel is called upon like no other art form to incorporate the intellectual content of an age.

— Robert Musil