Art Quote by Phyllis Rose Download Open image “the challenge of nonfiction is to marry art and truth.” — Phyllis Rose ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.9 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Art Challenges Nonfiction Truth
“All works of nonfiction, or memoir, have to first and foremost be art before they can be true. They have to be artful first before they can be truthful... If you emphasize the truth-telling at the expense of art, nobody is going to be interested in it. And if you sacrifice truth in the name of art, you risk triviality.… — Alan Shapiro Copy Share
The challenge for a nonfiction writer is to achieve a poetic precision using the documents of truth but somehow to make people and places… — Simon Schama Copy Share Image
If uncovering the truth is the greatest challenge of nonfiction writing, it is also the greatest reward. — Candice Millard Copy Share Image
Writing nonfiction is more like sculpture, a matter of shaping the research into the finished thing. — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
“Nonfiction is a form of literature that lies halfway between fiction and fact.” — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
“The writer of fiction is not a scholar but an artist impacted emotionally by characters from life, who then strives to present these in… — Alaa Al Aswany Copy Share Image
Truthfullness to life-both fantasy life and factual life-is the basis of all great art. — Maurice Sendak Copy Share Image
We now know that Art is not the truth... but rather a way of approaching the truth. — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
Fiction is harder for me than nonfiction - more gratifying, as a result, when it succeeds. — Rick Bass Copy Share Image
“A writer inevitably - and less directly this applies to all the arts - about contemporary events, and his impulse is to tell what… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“Who can resist the thought that love is the ideological bone thrown to women to distract their attention from the powerlessness of their lives?” — Phyllis Rose Copy Share Image
More people should visit Antarctica, metaphorically speaking, on their own. That is one of the conclusions I have reached, one of my recommendations: explore… — Phyllis Rose Copy Share Image
When you realize how hard it is to know the truth about yourself, you understand that even the most exhaustive and well-meaning autobiography, determined… — Phyllis Rose Copy Share Image
biographies are a little like marriages: You only have room in your life for one or two. — Phyllis Rose Copy Share Image
“Some kinds of literature demand to be treated respectfully. The obligation is on the reader to live up to them and not so much… — Phyllis Rose Copy Share Image
There is no neutrality. There is only greater or lesser awareness of one's bias. — Phyllis Rose Copy Share Image
“Most people should visit Antarctica, metaphorically speaking, on their own. That is one of the conclusions I have reached, one of my recommendations: explore… — Phyllis Rose Copy Share Image
“The banal advice of writ in teachers is "write what you know," but the truth is, you don't know a place until you write… — Phyllis Rose Copy Share Image
One form of loneliness is to have a memory and no one to share it with. — Phyllis Rose Copy Share Image
I believe we need literature, which, by allowing us to experience more fully, to imagine more fully, enables us to live more freely. — Phyllis Rose Copy Share Image
The literature of women's lives is a tradition of escapees, women who have lived to tell the tale. — Phyllis Rose Copy Share Image
True works of art contain their own theory and give us the measurement according to which we should judge them. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Before Noah, men having only water to drink, could not find the truth. Accordingly...they became abominably wicked, and they were justly exterminated by the… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
“Hear the sum of the whole matter in the compass of one brief word — every art possessed by man comes from Prometheus.” — Aeschylus Copy Share Image
I think most artists feel like they're outside society - no matter how many accolades they receive, or how much money is in your… — Aaron Rose Copy Share Image
The capacity to be puzzled is the premise of all creation, be it in art or in science. — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
That's the great secret of creativity. You treat ideas like cats: you make them follow you. — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“So, really," continued Jacob as if this were perfectly normal to expound on art in these circumstances, "when you think about it, the artists… — Justina Chen Headley Copy Share Image
“There are two options in art; either to adopt philosophical life by dissecting art, or to write your own philosophical life and claim it… — Taf Teh Copy Share Image
The house has to serve comfort. The work of art is revolutionary; the house is conservative. — Adolf Loos Copy Share Image
During human progress, every science is evolved out of its corresponding art. — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
In literature and art memory is a synonym for invention. It is the life-blood of imagination, which faints and dies when the veins are… — Robert Aris Willmott Copy Share Image
I think a business guy is different from an artist. They walk different paths. Artists create the best outputs when they're having fun. And… — G-Dragon Copy Share Image
