Art Quote by Samuel Butler

The contemporary thing in art and literature is the thing which doesn't make enough difference to the people of that generation so that they…

— Gertrude Stein

Since the last decades of the nineteenth century, revolt against the objectified world has determined the character of art and literature.

— Paul Tillich

The sole substitute for an experience which we have not ourselves lived through is art and literature.

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

The culture of a civilization is the art and literature through which it rises to consciousness of itself and defines its vision of the…

— Roger Scruton

Art and literature should help us to get out of our mental cocoons.

— Elif Safak

I'm kind of hooked to the game of art and literature; my heroes are artists and writers.

— Jim Morrison

“The sole substitute for an experience we have not ourselves lived through is art and literature.”

— Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn

Art and literature are my surrogate religions.

— Peter Shaffer

The cinema occupies an important place in the overall development of art and literature.

— Kim Jong Il

The general history of art and literature shows that the highest achievements of the human mind are, as a rule, not favourably received at…

— Arthur Schopenhauer

“What they achieved in art and literature is familiar to everybody, but what they did in the purely intellectual realm is even more exceptional.”

— Anonymous

I'm not totally comfortable with the ways in which our culture monetises art and literature.

— Sally Rooney

All great art and literature is propaganda.

— George Bernard Shaw

In other countries, art and literature are left to a lot of shabby bums living in attics and feeding on booze and spaghetti, but…

— Sinclair Lewis

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