Art Quote by Mark Twain

Never judge a work of art by its defects.

— Washington Allston

“Never judge a work of art by its defects. They same is true with people.”

— José N. Harris

I may remind you that history is not a branch of literature. The facts of history, like the facts of geology or astronomy, can…

— J. B. Bury

We lose ourselves in stories; that's the beauty of literary art.

— Siri Hustvedt

An essay is a work of literary art which has a minimum of one anecdote and one universal idea.

— Carol Bly

In the modern world, all literary art is necessarily political -- especially that which pretends not to be.

— Edward Abbey

In Red Flags, Juris Jurjevics has brilliantly accomplished a feat that is becoming a major characteristic of 21st century literature: the seamless combining of…

— Robert Olen Butler

Executive Severance, a laugh out loud comic mystery novel, epitomizes our current cultural moment in that it is born from the juxtaposition of authorial…

— Marleen S. Barr

In literary art, as in the art of the architect, the painter, the musician, signs that the artist is thinking of his own achievement…

— Herbert Spencer

“It is dangerous to condemn stories as junk which satisfy the deep hunger of millions of people. These books are not literary art, but…

— Judith Skelton-Grant

The beauty of the literary art, the grappling with the black church, the wrestling with one's identity in the bosom of a complicated black…

— Michael Eric Dyson

The visual and literary arts are of perennial interest to me, and these art forms have become more and more a part of my…

— Michael Hersch