Art Quote by Rita Dove

For years, I had heard about the lack of interest in literature in the U.S. and I had complained about the lack of respect…

— Rita Dove

I don't feel like literature has the power to alienate. I think that's something people feel if they don't connect with a work of…

— Eleanor Catton

For writers from working-class families, the making of art is cultural disenfranchisement, for we do not belong in literary circles and our writing rarely…

— Valerie Miner

I think the problem with the arts in America is how unimportant it seems to be in our educational system.

— Chuck Close

Some people act as though art that is for a mass audience is not good art, and I think this has been a very…

— Bell Hooks

One often forgets that even if art is a very successful field in contemporary culture, there are still a lot of people alienated by…

— Tino Sehgal

It has seemed to me that literature, as I meant it, was embattled, that it was increasingly difficult to find writing doing what I…

— Dorothy Allison

I was much more interested in literature than I was in art. I just got into art by mistake.

— Peggy Guggenheim

“Art is made by those who consider themselves to have failed at whatever isn’t art. And of course it is loved as consolation, or…

— Howard Jacobson

I think American literature is in a tedious place, horrible place. I can't even engage with it.

— Jessa Crispin

I do not actually see how art, literature can be anything other that being in that domain of trying to tell us, trying to…

— Chinua Achebe

With the closures of art schools and the drop-off in humanities, you can see where that's a direct loss for the country.

— Kelly Reichardt