Art Quote by Samuel Butler

“To create works of art meant no less to him than to paint life, not mere reality, but the principle of life.”

— Ingo Walther

In literature and in life we ultimately pursue, not conclusions, but beginnings.

— Sam Tanenhaus

“We often fail to allow for the possibility that evidence that should be critical to our judgment is missing—what we see is all there…

— Daniel Kahneman

“Life is not attained by reasoning and analysis but first of all by living.”

— Thomas Merton

“Life runs in a narrow path to balancing act, convincing tact, and satisfying fact.”

— Santosh Kalwar

The principle of literature is devotion to the particulars of life.

— Carol Bly

“There were far worse strategies in life than to try to make each aspect of one's existence a minor work of art.”

— Pat Conroy

“Nothing could be less conducive to reaching an art-work than critical remarks:it's always simply a matter of more or less fortunate misunderstandings. Everything cannot…

— Rainer Maria Rilke

“Works of art are of an infinite solitude, and no means of approach is so useless as criticism. Only love can touch and hold…

— Rainer Maria Rilke

Literature may be false, but it is not trivial.

— Mason Cooley

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

— Karl Ove Knausgaard

It is the life in literature that acts upon life.

— J. G. Holland