Art Quote by Rachel Cusk

“What cannot be borne in reality, becomes a source of pleasure when it is transposed into the visual and somatic fiction of the dramatic…

— Claude Calame

It is of the essence of imaginative culture that it transcends the limits both of the naturally possible and of the morally acceptable.

— Northrop Frye

“The glory of fiction is in its falseness, but the impact of fiction is found in its painful reality.”

— R.W.K. Clark

As entertainment, fiction may offer momentary relief from the stresses of reality.

— Joanna Scott

Some acts of worldbuilding in fiction instantiate a milieu that is so culturally odd and exotic, so displaced from the audience's consensus reality in…

— Paul Di Filippo

“Writing fiction feels like an adventurous act, nudging aside reality a word at a time.”

— James Van Pelt

“The obsession with correct political belief and expression in art is stultifying the genre as it is necessarily exclusive. We are losing our voice…

— Scott M. Roberts

“The idea that people can be improved by being offended will finally have to meet the idea (espoused some of the time by some…

— Wendell Berry

“It is the case that, albeit to a lesser extent, all fictions make their readers live "the impossible", taking them out of themselves, breaking…

— Mario Vargas Llosa

Fiction is art and art is the triumph over chaos… to celebrate a world that lies spread out around us like a bewildering and…

— John Cheever

“Fiction that fails to engage an audience with the emotional intricacies of viable characters will, for many in that audience, simply alienate them with…

— Hal Duncan

It's surprising that readers don't see challenging writing as morally hazardous, when it might be pushing the same kinds of boundaries as art does.

— Araya Rasdjarmrearnsook