Books Quote by Phillips Brooks

VLife comes before literature, as the material always comes before the work. The hills are full of marble before the world blooms with statues.

— Phillips Brooks

...life every now and then becomes literature...as if life had been made and not happened.

— Norman Maclean

Literature always anticipates life. It doesn't copy it but moulds it to it's purpose.

— Oscar Wilde

Unlike life, a work of art never gets taken for granted: it is always viewed against its precursors and predecessors.

— Joseph Brodsky

Life develops, changes, is in motion. The forms of literature are not.

— Karl Ove Knausgaard

Literature always anticipates life. It does not copy it, but moulds it to its purpose. The nineteenth century, as we know it, is largely…

— Oscar Wilde

It is the life in literature that acts upon life.

— J. G. Holland

We are each given a block of marble when we begin a lifetime, and the tools to shape it into sculpture. We can drag…

— Richard Bach

In every landscape should reside jewels of abstract art waiting to be discovered.

— Melissa Brown

Art is the splendor of reality before everything has become meaning.

— Frederick Sommer

Art is life, life is art - the question is what came first?

— Lady Gaga

Literature is born when something in life goes slightly adrift.

— Simone de Beauvoir