Art Quote by Robert Black

Writers are historians, too. It is in literature that the greater truths about a people and their past are found.

— F. Sionil Jose

I see artists as a great battalion moving through paint, words, music towards cosmological interpretation.

— Lawrence Durrell

Not all writers are artists. But all of us like the idea of somebody in the year 2283 blowing the dust off one of…

— William Attwood

A historian may be an artist too, and a novelist is a historian, the preserver, the keeper, the expounder, of human experience.

— Joseph Conrad

Writers and painters alike are in the business of consulting their own imaginations, and stimulating the imaginations of others. Together, and separately, they celebrate…

— Lynne Truss

Part of being an artist is being able to write about the world you live in and the times that you've been a part…

— Ryan Murphy

The trouble with science fiction is that you can write about everything: time, space, all the future, all the past, all of the universe,…

— Philip J. Klass

art is at least in part a way of collecting information about the universe.

— Rebecca West

The artist is always engaged in writing a detailed history of the future because he is the only person aware of the nature of…

— Wyndham Lewis

Artists are those people who sit at the intersection between the known and unknown, the rational and irrational, coming to terms with some of…

— Kehinde Wiley

Writers are the main landmarks of the past.

— Anonymous

I think maybe writers come from different planets. I mean, not in any sense as extravagant as Baryshnikov. But there are some writers who…

— Renata Adler